posted by [identity profile] unrequitedthai.livejournal.com at 05:12am on 20/04/2005
Man, I flubbed my HTML tags there. That discontinuity in the last paragraph should go:

...I'm guessing here that insulated horror is subversive horror that depends on something that we can think about directly, or else don't have the metaphors to understand, and we're just being scared because we encounter idioms that are associated with horror in our brains. But it's not our own horror here, generated by...
 
posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 05:13am on 20/04/2005
You are possibly correct.
 
posted by [identity profile] unrequitedthai.livejournal.com at 05:23am on 20/04/2005
I can't really take credit for anything but the wording of that; someone suggested the basic concept to me some time ago, and I basically think it's a good idea that bears repeating.

Oh, and the whole symbols/linguistic response thing. That's me.

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