"The horror is that there is no horror."

[Stephen Goranson]

Yama [The Pit] by Alexandr Kuprin  (1870-1938) [ET available at Project Gutenberg]
epigram: "All the horror is in just this, that there is no horror ..."

Stephen Goranson
www.duke.edu/~goranson
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Subject: [ADS-L] "The horror is that there is no horror."

In other words, it's horrifying that nobody seems to notice just how
horrifying it is.

I read this line somewhere about 45 years ago and have seen it quoted two
or three times since.

Not in YBQ.

Who wrote it?

(GB offers a snippet hint that it may have been Randall Jarrell, but that
seems a long shot.)

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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