Out of Time by George Langelaan
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Overview: Past, present and future. Does it have to be that order?
Horror is a form of fear, therefore of ignorance. Cutting up a live person with a fret-saw, a blow-torch, or a pair of nail scissors is not sheer horror for a surgeon, though it would be for most other people… at first. In time, known and explained horror wanes to disgust, more or less nauseating.
Real horror, paralysing horror is that untold. Edgar Allan Poe’s Berenice is a good example. The idea of horror is planted in the mind of the reader, who suddenly finds himself alone with it. The horror is here of such quality that even a surgeon might well enjoy it, though a pathologist might merely qualify it as “mucky”.
Time is for me one of the best elements of horror, not only because we know so little about it but because it is nothing and everything. We have, so far, only measured it in a miserable sort of way, cutting up minute fractions of it into days and hours, that seem endless to youth and so short for elderly people. But we are beginning to discover that time is something more than real, something tangible and even solid. In it, scientists can already begin to “feel” the past and the future; in time and space they are discovering time cells, or time in time. For the insect that lives a few minutes, we are eternal, but for a range of mountains, we flit about so rapidly that we do not really exist.
Everything that has ever happened and everything that will happen is in that one single blob of TIME. That is real horror.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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