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.
He wanted to stay there forever, letting her soothe him, pretending he was just a kid and his mom could make everything okay.
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He wanted to stay there forever, letting her soothe him, pretending he was just a kid and his mom could make everything okay.
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