• a little room in house no. 27
• with a high, Gothic window
• long curtains
• a view of the church tower and garden below
• "bizarre legs of the bed"
• carpeted floor

• the book was possibly inspired by "the monk"
• valerie's voiceover is not even jaroslava's voice
• hedvika/hedviga
• jaroslava was 13-years-old :(
• filmed during summer

• 1796 - matthew lewis publishes the monk...
• 1945 - vítězslav nezval publishes valerie a týden divů...
• 1970 - jaromil jireš' film adaptation of valerie...
• 1970 - angela carter sees jireš' valerie...
• 1984 - angela carter releases the company of wolves.

• "orrrrlík"
• cobwebs and veils
• lily-clogged water fountain
• valerie’s white, narrow room
• slavonice's architecture
• luboš fišer ♥
• matthew lewis' monster
• little details of valerie's room
• valerie eating currants as she reads
• jaroslava's hair
• dove coming to valerie with orlík’s letter
• “i’m under the spell of a vampire”
• the way orlík says “valerie”
• tableaux vivant scenes
• fishnet stockings of elsa and choker
• blood droplets on daisies
• valerie with her oil lamp
• the birdcage
• all the cogs and wheels
• elsa’s victorian style

archaic, unknown, and pretty meanings particular to the text

† archaic   → origin   ♡ adored

• hind —a female deer, esp. a red deer or sika in and after its third year ♡
  • indo-european/greek → “hornless,” “young deer”
• vetch —a scrambling herbaceous plant of the pea family 
• polecat —zorilla of the weasel family; hunts by night for birds and rodents, with a mask across the eyes; (from old french pole/poule → chicken/poultry)
• bed jacket —a cape-like, waist-length robe worn over nightgown to conceal arms, chest and shoulders as a woman sat up in bed
• haulm —stalk or stem esp. of peas or potatoes
• shift —a woman's straight, loose fitting undergarment dress

• an uncleft pomegranate
• a little rose-petal boat floating on the tempestuous ocean
• a peach oozing red blood
• a long bladdernut rosary, twisted over and over
• an alabaster hand extended in a house of plague
• a bud which will burst when the time is ripe