He had not been able to see it in himself, but looking at Hungerford, he was able at least to speculate on the possibility that fear, raw, physical fear, had a kind of gift to give, too. Who but the terrified has heard his own heart pounding, listened to his own stertorous breathing, wishing that heart and lungs would be more quiet, and yet learning in their pulsation the lessons of rhythm and metrics? (Anagrams, p. 80) .David R. Slavitt
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When Stephen King, in his short story "The Mist" describes the townspeople of the town of Milford as “terrorized,” he is talking about their fear of an unknown monster that has come to Milford. The people of Milford are terrified for their lives and know that they must keep moving, one foot in front of the other. The monster is not there yet, but everyone is already terrified. This terrorized people do not act like normal humans; instead, they act like animals, running away at all times.
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