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"Skeletons in the Closet" called real life stories, events that happened once and were hidden from other people, and sometimes from oneself. There are two reasons to hide these stories.
Firstly, the story that happened can be very painful, traumatic, dramatic for a person. Did something myself or did something to you. We will not give any examples here. There are many of them on the pages of the Internet, or on the pages of your own memory. These stories may be very diverse, but one thing unites them. It is difficult (ashamed, scary) to remember them, not to mention trusting someone to tell them. The story itself is denied, as well as one's own feelings about it, which can be very strong if not suppressed. Sometimes they are so strong that one cannot cope with them alone. But the opportunity to tell someone is also denied.
Speaking literally about this well-known metaphor - "skeleton in the closet" - it is important to note that every "skeleton" was once specific person associated with negative experiences. And the “closet” is the “corners” of memory in which this person is placed, where he first turns into a “corpse”, and then into a skeleton. In other words, history has not been lived through to the end, not accepted, not assimilated. Something in this story has not been done, not said, not reacted, that is, not finished.
Despite all the diversity, all "skeletons" have characteristics. The "skeleton" always wants to jump out of the closet. The “skeleton” is a psychological, intangible thing, and the further you “hide” it, the more they “stick out” at the most inopportune moment. If you make a safe out of a closet, then time will pass and your skeleton can turn into a monster that can get out of a metal safe! The "closet" is always inside you. It's up to you to decide what it will be. The most “strong” option is to hide it so as not to remember yourself. This means that the story has been pushed into the subconscious, which means it will “live on its own” and, in addition to your desire, influence your life. The "skeleton" "lives its own life" and can become a "psychological infection" that destroys a person from the inside.
If you want, you can start "reviewing" your "closets" right now. You can start by simply signing the individual drawers in which you keep your "skeletons".
Still, at least some order!
Skeleton in the closet - a story from life. Newspapers had plenty to write about that day. They painted everything on the floor of the strip, there was something to savor: a walled female skeleton was found in the wall of a private house. On suspicion of murder, C was arrested ... Many people think about the skeleton in the closet, but here the skeleton is in the wall. Horror…
Trips to work abroad have drawn out a hundred years of life from more than one beauty, without thanking them with a single golden feeling. The days for Marina dragged on for a long time, like rubber, all the words around were still not native. Remembered your motherland the girls rejoiced as they cleaned London cafes.
He ordered coffee from her three times and finally asked why she made him so intoxicated that there was no need for cognac in coffee.
I had never heard such a turn from regular and thick-skinned clients, so I looked at him with both eyes. “But he’s nothing,” he thought, “not red-haired, stately, only some kind of wolf’s eyes.” Word by word, we got to know each other. "Leave and forget," Marina thought to herself about a new friend. And he came the next day, and the next week.
“You fell on his heart,” the companions laughed. Look, he wants to get married. You will breed small Englishmen, you will teach them to sing our songs. And everything will be fine.
“Today is my birthday,” he called in the morning, when Marina was sleeping on the subway on her way to work. - Waiting for you".
Birthday? Looking for a gift, or is he waiting for me to be a gift myself? The whole day was spinning and did not even sit down. Yes, and inherited from the owner of the cafe. But she consoled herself: whoever cries in the morning laughs in the evening. And I dreamed about that evening.
She saw her English knight drop to one knee and hold out the ring. Introduces her to her parents. What a nice and comfortable house they have. Well, nothing in England - they will fly to their parents on vacation.
And the children will have a different future, secure, stable. And it was so warm in the heart that the work was almost pleasant. But something disturbed inside, strained. The well-known sixth sense shrank and was silent...
I washed my hair, put on new underwear, and shone all over like a new penny. Or maybe that radiance came from within, because she was tired without love.
He promptly opened the door, waiting for the guests. There was no one in his house. And Marina immediately realized that the party was planned for two. But it seemed to her that she heard someone's steps near the bathroom. Or no steps?
Somehow rustled a light robe. And she was in such a hurry ... Marina walked around her friend like a statue and ran to the bathroom. No, no one, only the doors are slightly open. But she sensed that someone had been here a second before.
- Can you congratulate me? - Marina was returned to reality by her gentleman. - You can go to the bathroom.
What a clumsy thing I'm doing, you fool. Marina reproached herself with words she could not remember. She artistically pulled out a branded muffler from the bag and threw it around his neck - a gift. But somehow he shied away.
This is the beginning, I thought to myself. Embraced.
Wine was already waiting in the room on a perfectly set table. She understood, she would give herself all, without a trace.
As when she was supposed to go to England, her cat, the green-eyed tricolor beauty Liza, pissed everyone off: she fussed, looked into her eyes, meowed, but she could not say anything.
Marina even dreamed strangely, as she warned of danger. Then she hid in a suitcase - even at the airport they noticed her.
Marina saw the same cat on the way to the birthday boy. Even from the mouth flew off: Lisa. The cat stopped, looked at Marina and, looking around, ran in the other direction, as if calling for her.
Who is there in the next room - again it seemed to Marina. As a kind of purring or whining was heard. The birthday boy went to the kitchen for a corkscrew, and Marina quietly peered through the living room door, from where the sounds came from.
“God, mommy…” she breathed out. In front of her in the room, as if nailed to the wall, loomed a girl with a blue face and a long scarf wrapped around her neck. She was saying something through her transparent lips and seemed to be choking. Marina subconsciously understood: this girl is begging for help.
"And you see her?" - An Englishman said from behind with some hissing sounds. Until now, no one except me noticed. Such as you, from Ukraine - the girls there are beautiful.
I just didn't want to be who I was. I tied her neck to the bed with a scarf. But somehow tightened the scarf too tightly. And who will look for her, an illegal migrant? It is walled up in the wall. Do you want to visit her?
Marina never felt such strength that appeared in her body - either from fright or some kind of surprise. She fought with her arms and legs, biting and growling like a beast. Already on the street I realized what had happened, everything flashed, as it rolled down the mountain.
Cop. But how to explain to an Englishman that what I saw and heard did not happen after the dose taken. And what did I see and hear? What if this bastard just scared me and the woman on the wall is a product of a three-dimensional projection, or as they show in films.
No, I felt this pain, this horror. Just how to explain it...
“Sir, I want to report a murder…
At first, her documents were checked in the department for a long time. She told the police a somewhat shortened story, omitting her vision. Only - about the terrible recognition of a friend.
In megacities, horrors are at every turn. You read about them in the chronicle and it’s as if it doesn’t concern you that someone was killed, or drowned, or moved. But when something like this happens to your friends or in front of your eyes, then speech is taken away.
Everyone who lived on that London street told this story with genuine horror. English black humor about a skeleton in a closet has found its author.
Subsequently, Marina calmed down, only in dreams, it happened, a girl with a thin scarf around her neck came. I warned you.
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What is a "skeleton in the closet"? Let's figure it out together. Skeletons in the closet are real life stories, events that happened once and were hidden from other people, and sometimes from oneself.
Speaking literally about this well-known metaphor - "skeleton in the closet" - it is important to note that each "skeleton" was once a specific person with whom they are associated negative experiences . And the closet is corners of memory , in which this person is placed, where he first turns into a "corpse", and then into a skeleton. In other words, history has not been lived through to the end, not accepted, not assimilated, something in this story has not been done, not said, not reacted, that is, not finished .
Despite all the diversity, all "skeletons" have characteristics . The "skeleton" always wants to jump out of the closet. The “skeleton” is a psychological, non-material thing, and the further you “hide” it, the more it “sticks out” at the most inopportune moment. If you make a safe out of a closet, then time will pass and your skeleton can turn into a monster that can get out of a metal safe! The “closet” is always inside you. It's up to you to decide what it will be. The most “strong” option is to hide it so as not to remember yourself. This means that history pushed into the subconscious , which means it will “live on its own” and in addition to your desire to influence your life. The "skeleton" lives its own life and can become psychological infection that destroys a person from the inside.
If you want, you can start "reviewing" your "closets" right now. You can start by simply signing the individual drawers in which you keep your "skeletons". Still, at least some order!
Our guests, arriving, discover many interesting and unusual finds in our mini-hotel. This is an opportunity to drink tea or coffee in a cozy dining room, stylized as an English pub, and a chance to call almost anywhere in the world from a traditional British red line for free. phone booth, and the presence of all sorts of little entertainment in the form of puzzles, chess, dominoes and mini-golf.
But an even bigger surprise, which undoubtedly surprises everyone, is the skeletons that live in every closet. Our skeletons are quite good-natured and do not cause any trouble to guests, so most of the guests treat them with humor, but some, especially impressionable ones, are frightened. And, of course, everyone has a question: “Where did such a tradition come from in the hotel - skeletons in closets?”. The answer to this question is very simple. Mini-hotel "Greenwich" tries to adhere to English traditions in absolutely everything, and, as you know from the old British saying, every decent house always has its own skeleton in the closet. Where did this expression come from?
"To have a skeleton in the closet" (in British English "in the cupboard" ) means to have some terrible secret, some shameful secret from the past that you, by all means, do not want to put on public display.
Initially, this expression was used in the context of medical activity. Physicians in Britain were not allowed to work on corpses until an Act was passed by Parliament in 1832 giving them such power. Under this Act, they could only perform medical autopsies on bodies that belonged to executed criminals. And despite the fact that executions in Britain 19th century were not so rare, the likelihood that a doctor would be lucky enough to deal with many corpses during his medical career was by no means great. Therefore, a very common practice among doctors who managed to gain access to the body of a deceased criminal was to store his skeleton in a closet for further research. Public opinion would condemn doctors keeping skeletons in plain sight, in their operating rooms, so they had to hide research material. Even if people did not see the skeletons, they were sure that the doctors were hiding them somewhere, and the most logical place for this, from their point of view, was closets.
Of course, a lot of time has passed since then, and now this expression does not have such a literal meaning. Now it has more to do with family secrets. In England they say: “Everyone has their own skeleton in the closet, which has a nasty habit of falling out at the most inopportune moment”.
The wording itself "skeleton in the closet" became widespread, being used by the English writer William Thackeray in the novel "Newcomes, a biography of a very respectable family" ("Newcomes", 1853-1855), after which the phrase was thoroughly entrenched in the everyday life of the British. In Russian, tracing paper is used from this expression - “a skeleton in a closet”. The expression itself is used in the chapter "What skeleton was hiding in Barnes Newcomb's closet":
"... from them we have to learn some details about the Newcome family, indicating that these gentlemen, like other mortals, had their skeletons in their closets. So how can I best present this story to you? If you, venerable matrons, do not want your daughters to know that bad husbands have bad wives; that marriage without love does not promise happiness; that men, to whom brides swear love and obedience by someone else's will, sometimes turn out to be selfish, deceitful and hard-hearted; that women they forget vows not made from the heart - so if you don't want to hear about all this, my dear readers, shut the book and send for another..."
In addition, the expression became one of the options for the title of Somerset Maugham's novel "Pies and Beer, or the Skeleton in the Cupboard" (1930), which tells about the life of the famous English writer Edward Driffield seen through the eyes young man brought up in the Victorian tradition.
In many homes, material things are stored, which can also be called skeletons in the closet. These are items inherited, which, due to old age, are rarely kept in sight, removed from sight and do not want to be shown to outsiders: letters, jewelry, documents, drawings, ancient tools - everything that can remind of deceased ancestors. Naturally, natural skeletons are a rarity, although this is also possible.
“Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard” - This is the motto of investigators and lawyers who deal with inheritance issues. The proverb says that many hide something about the past of their family or keep things that can tell about this past. Most likely, a person is cunning if he says that he has nothing to hide, because everyone, undoubtedly, has at least one “skeleton in the closet”.
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