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“A taste of you slipped into me like moonlight in a locked church.”

Janet Lees, Reconsecrated, House of Water.

To Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens

“Cold in my professions — warm in my friendships- I wish, my dear Laurens, it were in my power, by actions, rather than words, to convince you that I love you. I shall only tell you, that till you bade us adieu, I hardly knew the value you had taught my heart to set upon you. Indeed, my friend, it was not well done. You know the opinion I entertain of mankind; and how much it is my desire to preserve myself from particular attachments, and to keep my happiness independent of the caprices of others. You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. But as you have done it, and as we are generally indulgent to those we love, I shall not scruple to pardon the fraud you have com-mitted, on one condition; that for my sake, if not for your own, you will continue to merit the partiality which you have so artfully instilled into me.”

From Alexander Hamilton to Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens, [April 1779]

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Sufia Kamal, Majestic Nights, Love-Timid “Translated by Carolyne Wright with Ayesha Kabir”

Rick Reid, to be hung from the ceiling by strings of varying length

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Both religious experience and horror are characterized as encounters with something simultaneously awesome and awful—a feeling captured in the older spelling, "aweful", which still retains its sense of awe.

Timothy Beal, Religion and Its Monsters.

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Likewise, the experience of horror in relation to the monstrous is often described in terms reminiscent of religious experience. Both are often characterized as an encounter with mysterious otherness that elicits a vertigo-like combination of both fear and desire, repulsion and attraction.

Timothy Beal, Religion and Its Monsters.

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the Latin root of the word ‘monster’ is related to the verb monstrare, which means to show or reveal. a monstrum is a message that breaks into this world from the realm of the divine’

Timothy Beal, Religion and Its Monsters.

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The monster is a paradoxical embodiment of both Otherness and sameness, seeming to reflect our fears that we are not really as different from the Other as we would like to think.

Brandon R. Grafius, Text and Terror: Monster Theory and the Hebrew Bible.

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