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Chatting With the Abyss

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“That feeling should excite us—it used to. Or mesmerize. Or terrify. The unknown in life is still a gigantic terra incognita toward which every soul can make its pilgrimage. Jorie Graham in the New Yorker, Jan 4, 23

Frog: “I AM the Abyss!” Snake: “Nooooo!!!”

The following was inspired by a mind-boggling, epic and ardent exchange between two commenters reacting in a highly tangential way to my Dec 23rd entry about Murnau’s Faust.

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