I climb aboard the train a minute or two before it pulls out of the station and find to my horror that my seat is taken. |
It instead focuses upon the absurdist horror of one man holding back a tide of blood. |
He had an abiding fear of fundamentalism, not a neurotic fear, but a deep horror of it. |
Traditional values are so perverted by slavery that Sethe is driven to murder her own daughter to keep her from slavery's horrors. |
Even today, a person wanting to drive a rickshaw, or to run a tea shop, suffers the same horrors of the license-permit-quota raj. |
The drama is in the emotional defences each soldier employs to survive the horrors they face. |