Word used in the novel "The Shining" by Stephen King and in the movie based on it and directed by Stanley Kubrick. "
Murder" spelt backwards. Also works on many other levels, being suggestive of bloodshed, wrath, inebriation, violence, a
force that consumes
people's lives like some satisfying drink, and something used to subdue the Native American tribes that form a subtext of the film.
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