The Shining/WMG

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In the novel, the picture window never breaks.

The window that has all the Fauxshadowing towards being broken survives the boiler explosion. It is shielded from shattering by a miraculous confluence of events and a heavily faulty frame, and the pane itself ends up slicing into a dense snow drift some ways away completely undamaged.

The Overlook Hotel is an entity like Fourteen Oh Eight...

... only all grown up.


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