...more The curse is finally I viewed the ocean green, expiated. And looked far forth, yet little saw 445 Of what had else been seen — Like one, that on a...turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; 450 Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. But soon there breathed a wind...

...the curse, with which they died, Had never passed away: I could not draw my eyes from theirs. Nor tum them up to pray, And now this spell was snapt: once...road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once tumed round walks on. And tums no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind...

...really do exist. It turns us all into children, frightened to watch yet too fascinated to stop watching, Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.6 The witches are the catalysts to this fear, the equivocal aspects of their being announced...

...rim dips; the stars rush out; At one stride comes the dark. 2448 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' 2449 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' No voice; but oh! the silence sank Like music on my heart. 2450...

...old Horny," he said to the dead tree. And once, as dusk pursued him homeward, he began repeating: As one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread: when the sound of a crackling twig made every nerve in his body stiffen with terror. Some impulse not...

...away: I could not draw my eyes from theirs, Nor turn them up to pray. And now this spell was snapped: once more I viewed the ocean green. And looked far...knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. Buat soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made: Its path was not upon the sea, In...

...humiliation. Bion quotes Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner as a representation of this state of mind: Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. This dread constellation is normally so profoundly intolerable that human beings banish it from awareness...

...and to look, haunter-haunted, pursuer-pursued, into the green corrupted Hell Face of malignant death: Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. hair-faced louts of Doubleday. They struck fear and wonder in the hearts of the smaller, gentler boys,...

...might well think him a weirdy, a criminal. She might turn and catch sight of him, crossing the park: Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. Does she go to a gym class? She must have caught me looking just now. He knows she does not wear a...

...they have the historical experience to deal with change, since the times of Kubla Khan! APPENDICES Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. — The Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) APPENDIX A Major Landmarks in the History of Spiti...