"Fear is very much like pain, in the sense that, in the intervals that one is free of it, one forgets how very disagreeable it is…its worst agony comes well beforehand, in the period of suspense; by the time the crucial moment arrives, a certain detachment – a fatalistic longing to finish the suspense, and finally a dull resignation – has replaced the quaking."
- Peter Matthiessen in The Cloud Forest
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