Many people have an oversimplified picture of bonding that could be called the "epoxy" theory of relationships...if you don't get ...properly "glued" to your babies at exactly the right time, which only occurs very soon after birth, then you will have missed your chance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In fear, one flees. One can pretend to fear, accordingly, by pretending to flee, a vigorous activity in which there may be little ...visible difference between pretense and reality. In horror, on the other hand, there is passivity, the passivity of presence. One stands (or sits) aghast, frozen in place, "glued to one's seat." ... Horror involves a helplessness which fear evades. The evasive activities of fear may be pointless, even self-defeating, but they are activities nonetheless, activities that can be feigned. Horror is a spectator's emotion, and thus it is especially well-suited for the cinema and the visual arts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvellous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertise...ments stuck all over them are just telling you that they can't decipher the cyrillic alphabet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as lon...g as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I want the concentration & the romance, & the words all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, declar...ing that every man should be master in his own house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »