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Shots by Mélanie Lehmann for sustainablesmut, assisted by He Xin Run.

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Shots by Mélanie Lehmann for sustainablesmut, assisted by He Xin Run.

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By: Katerina

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Ming Xi for the 2021 CCTV Spring Festival Gala

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There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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The thing that messes me up about the whole “the butler did it” trope is that we literally have no idea where it comes from.

The earliest known piece of detective fiction in which the butler, in fact, did it? Published in 1930.

The earliest known article calling out “the butler did it” as an egregious cliché in detective fiction? Published in 1928.

Obviously there must have been earlier examples of detective fiction in which the butler did it, but none of them have survived to the present day, leaving us in this bizarre situation where the earliest known callout post about the trope pre-dates its earliest known actual use by a full two years.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/B2rgTL1nEBn/

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— “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost

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oh to be called "my love" by your favourite person in the whole world