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Nightmare on Elm Street

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Borges tells comes to the point in the next paragraph telling of a friend's dream : 'And she had the sensation of horror that is the nightmare... for the nightmare is, above all, the sensation of horror' (Borges 1980 : 37)

has a particular horror that can be expressed by any story at all: It has a flavor of the nightmare.

The nightmare has a particular horror, and that horror may be expressed by any story. It may be expressed by Wordsworth's Bedouin who is also Don Quixote, by scissors and threads, by my dream of the king, by the famous nightmares of Poe. But there is something: it is the flavor of the nightmare. In the treatises I ahve consulted they do not speak of this horror' (Borges 1980 : 41)

 exists outside of logic... any explanation is antithetical to the poetry of fear.

nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations... they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. Stephen King

is to digestion... it's the violent rejection of hostile increment.

excreta: Freud actually uses that metaphor.

is a poor dramatist, for it is always without any third act, bringing you to a climax of terror and then leaving you there.

Have you noticed .. . there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

is a free horror movie that you get to star in.

is bad, but waking up from an excellent dream sometimes feels worse.

is less bearable than a good dream, for good dreams take you to the pinnacle of your desires and then when you wake up, drop you into the abyss that is everyday life.

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