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.
Mountains could be what happens when Father Earth eats something that doesn__ agree with him. When he burps, mountains pop up.""That__ absurd," Keselo said, trying not to laugh."If you__e got a better theory, I__ be happy to hear it," Red-Beard said mildly. "Anyway, a burp isn__ anything but air that boils up out of a man__ stomach, so Father Earth__ mountains have chunks of empty air in the middle of them__urps that didn__ quite manage to make it to the surface, you understand.
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Mountains could be what happens when Father Earth eats something that doesn__ agree with him. When he burps, mountains pop up.""That__ absurd," Keselo said, trying not to laugh."If you__e got a better theory, I__ be happy to hear it," Red-Beard said mildly. "Anyway, a burp isn__ anything but air that boils up out of a man__ stomach, so Father Earth__ mountains have chunks of empty air in the middle of them__urps that didn__ quite manage to make it to the surface, you understand.
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