Horror immobolizes us because it is made of contradictory feelings: fear and seduction, repulsion and attraction. Horror is a fascination...Horror is immobility, the great yawn of empty space, the womb and the hole in the earth, the universal Mother and the great garbage heap...With horror we cannot have recourse to flight or combat, there remains only Adoration or Exorcism.
Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else?
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46
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Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else?
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