"They Could Not Stand the Barking"
....Several times over the years I’ve used the title of Robert Aickman’s superb autobiography – Attempted Rescue (1966) – to refer to adulthood as I think he intends to describe it: adulthood as a failure to rescue the Golden Age (which is to say our young selves) from self-murder. Attempted Rescue is what we do to our own lives with our own hands.
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