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Further examples of this conflation of beginnings with endings in the novel can be seen in the totemic existence and function of Oscar's caul as well as in the chapter entitled "The Vicarage Kitchen": the number of times the word "cross" is used to describe Lucy Millar in the midst of her preparing lamb (emblematic of Easter) and fresh bread made from dough pocked with cinders and ashes (evocative of communion and Ash Wednesday), framed by the confusion over whether the cursing of God precedes a kitchen accident or vice versa (which is the beginning? which the end result?).

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