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.
Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.
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Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.
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