Sublime

In a word, their world, like a child’s, is full of foreshortening, as of a short cut to fairyland.

in the old age of our society, in a mood dangerously morbid, in a spirit only too ready to take the exception instead of the rule. If we find creatures that are half human, we may only too possibly make them an excuse for being half-human ourselves.

Hitchcockian protagonist,