Katherine Dunn Quotes
The Child, Screaming For Refuge, Senses How Feeble A Shelter The Twig Hut Of Grown-up Awareness Is. They Claim Strength, These Parents, And Complete Sanctuary. The Weeping Earth Itself Knows How Desperate Is The Child's Need For Exactly That Sanctuary. How Deep And Sticky Is The Darkness Of Childhood, How Rigid The Blades Of Infant Evil, Which Is Unadulterated, Unrestrained By The Convenient Cushions Of Age And Its Civilizing Anesthesia.
Grownups Can Deal With Scraped Knees, Dropped Ice-cream Cones, And Lost Dollies, But If They Suspected The Real Reasons We Cry They Would Fling Us Out Of Their Arms In Horrified Revulsion. Yet We Are Small And As Terrified As We Are Terrifying In Our Ferocious Appetites.
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