The Lamp Magazine | So Light and Gold

On envy.

Long ago, in the olden days when people watched movies on V.H.S. tapes and traveled in stegosaurus-drawn wagons, and I was a child, one of my favorite tapes came with a preview for a movie I didn’t own and had never seen. I must have regarded a preview as an unskippable part of the tape-watching experience, because even though I found this clip terrifying, I nevertheless watched it every time. It was about twin sisters, one of whom hated the other, even dreaming about beating her sister to death with a shovel. In one scene, the two girls sat in church as a preacher condemned “hate.” As he…

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