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perlmonger) wrote2007-12-16 09:18 am
perlmonger) wrote2007-12-16 09:18 am
a question
This morning’s dead rat reminded me indirectly of something I’ve been thinking about posting for a while:
Do you have any sort of abiding horror that you read in a book, or saw in a film or on TV, as a child or adolescent? The sort of thing that haunted you for years and might still give you a queasy feeling years later?
Mine, and I only have the one, is the inside-out cat in Eye in the Sky: that made me feel physically ill with horror, and pity, and revulsion, when I first read it as a teenager. It still drags itself, somehow, impossibly, across the back of my mind today.
[ shudders ]
Do you have any sort of abiding horror that you read in a book, or saw in a film or on TV, as a child or adolescent? The sort of thing that haunted you for years and might still give you a queasy feeling years later?
Mine, and I only have the one, is the inside-out cat in Eye in the Sky: that made me feel physically ill with horror, and pity, and revulsion, when I first read it as a teenager. It still drags itself, somehow, impossibly, across the back of my mind today.
[ shudders ]
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Conventional horrors - rats, snakes, arthropods of whatever number of legs; claustrophobia, agoraphobia, &c… - have never had much effect on me, I seem to have needed events with emotional, visceral, impact. Though I did hide behind my sister when One dealt with the Zarbis, and I never actually saw a Rill; hey! I was seven at the time :)