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.
But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama.
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But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama.
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