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.
My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. __ou don__ know their situation,_ my mom would say. I considered it such an impolite question that for years I didn__ even ask myself. Thirty-five turned into forty faster than McDonald__ food turns into cold nonfood.
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My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. __ou don__ know their situation,_ my mom would say. I considered it such an impolite question that for years I didn__ even ask myself. Thirty-five turned into forty faster than McDonald__ food turns into cold nonfood.
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