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Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely... If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look at that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn." (pp44-45)
— Feb 21, 2025 05:43PM
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alma
is on page 424 of 629
...an amnesia-land, a kind of skewed Heaven where the landmarks were recognizable but spaced too far apart, and disarranged, and made terrible by the emptiness around them. (p422)
— Feb 27, 2025 06:08AM
alma
is on page 320 of 629
Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things – naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror – are too terrible to really ever grasp at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory, that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself – quite to one's surprise – in an entirely different world. (p312)
— Feb 26, 2025 11:16AM
