Starck

• starck: obsolete spelling of stark

• stark: hard, unyielding, rigid, stiff, incapable of movement; rigid or stiff in death; (landscape) bare, barren, desolate

• stack

• Sturk: a character in Sheridan LeFanu's novel The House by the Churchyard, a key text for FW; Sturk is attacked in the Phoenix Park and left for dead → stick up and knock out in the park
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