Can you NOT think of the ending of GR?

[David Morris]

Maybe also called "morbid curiosity."

The modern question is  does exposure deaden the collective nerves.  But
Hitchcock made horror cerebral, thus strengthening some synapses.  Probably
this is a strong case for "nurture."


On Friday, July 20, 2012, Ian Livingston wrote:

> It's that darned apocalypse again, that exhibition of the worst in us, in
> which we thrill to news of suffering. Yes, we honor the vampire, for the
> vampire is us. And when we recoil in horror at human beastliness, we reveal
> also that which is good enough to care....
>
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 7:30 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'richard.romeo at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> no, i thought some douchebag destroyed families, parents, and lives.
>> what is it with tis country of ours.
>>
>> remember being a literary conference where the speaker was droning on
>> about trauma like it was some loving fetish for like literary critics
>> to pick apart and discuss. I found the whole discussion rather
>> distasteful and vampiric
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'markekohut at yahoo.com');>>
>> wrote:
>> > Donovan Tate was in Theater 9 during shooting. The unreality of it
>> happening
>> > in a movie: "I didn't think it was gunshots at all."
>>
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>
>
> --
> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
> the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
> reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
> groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
> urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
>
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