And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.
Quelle: Pet Sematary (1983)
Kontext: It's probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. On the contrary, it seems that some exponential effect begins to obtain as deeper and deeper darkness falls - as little as one may like to support the idea that when the nightmare grows black enough, horror spawns horror, one coincidental evil begets other, often more deliberate evils, until finally blackness seems to cover everything. And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity. That such events have their own Rube Goldberg absurdity goes almost without saying. At some point, it all starts to become rather funny. That may be the point at which sanity begins either to save itself or to buckle and break down; that point at which one's sense of humor begins to reassert itself.
„Ich wurde wahnsinnig mit langen Intervallen schrecklicher geistiger Gesundheit.“
„Das Schöne ist nichts als des Schrecklichen Anfang, den wir noch grade ertragen.“
1. Duineser Elegie
„Der Leib ist das Erxerzierfeld des Geistes, das, wo er sich zu bewähren hat.“
Die erste Elegie, Verse 4-7. In: Duineser Elegien, Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1923, S. 7
Andere Werke
„Man mag die Natur mit der Hacke vertreiben, dennoch wird sie zurückkehren.“
(Original lat.: "Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.") - Epistulae 1,10,24
The Name of the Wind
