"The horror is that there is no horror."

[Jonathan Lighter]

Thanks, Steve!

It may have been appeared as the epigraph to Hunter S. Thompson's _Hell's
Angel's_.

And certainly should go into the next YBQ.

JL

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:

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> Yama [The Pit] by Alexandr Kuprin  (1870-1938) [ET available at Project
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> epigram: "All the horror is in just this, that there is no horror ..."
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> Stephen Goranson
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> In other words, it's horrifying that nobody seems to notice just how
> horrifying it is.
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> I read this line somewhere about 45 years ago and have seen it quoted two
> or three times since.
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> Not in YBQ.
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> Who wrote it?
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> (GB offers a snippet hint that it may have been Randall Jarrell, but that
> seems a long shot.)
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> JL
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