The narrator first describes the wallpaper as irritating and provoking, "and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide -- plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions." In other words, then, the loops and swirls of the wallpaper, probably slightly textured as wallpaper often was during the Victorian era (which would also explain the yellow dust that seems...
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