Kate and Day and the billowing shape — "In just the way any child…"
‘In just the way any child will probe a wound or pick at a scab I returned shortly to the room and the fan and picked up the violin again. And produced the resonance again immediately. And immediately again the black flapping shape rose in my mind again. It was a bit like a sail, or a small part of the wing of something far too large to be seen in totality. It was total psychic horror: death, decay, dissolution, cold empty black malevolent lonely voided space. It was the worst thing I have ever confronted.’
Context
The shape's second summoning and its definitive description: a sail, or a small part of the wing of something far too large to be seen in totality — the same wing Kate will name to Marathe at Ryle's, the same black folds the It essay describes billowing and wrapping. "Total psychic horror" is the theme's core catalog, the thing anhedonia is merely the anesthetized version of.