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Steve Bennett
Starfish
 
 
 

When these celestial animals burst into view, I am awed by their beauty. But when they become so strongly evident (as they quickly do) that I can no longer dismiss them by an act of will, I begin to feel as frightened of them as I am of falling into that midnight abyss over which they writhe; yet this is not a simple physical and instinctive fear like the other, but rather a sort of philosophical horror at the thought of a cosmos in which rude pictures of beasts and monsters have been painted with flaming suns. (SB)