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.
Maybe she'd never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know?
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Maybe she'd never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know?
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