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" Men’s dreams, their inner truth, are unheimlich also, your Highness. If any man examines his inner truth with both eyes wide open, and his inner eye wide open also, he will be overcome with terror at what he finds. That, I have always supposed, is why we hear these stories about a region of our lake. Out there, on the water, in darkness, out of sight, men encounter the image within them. Or so they suppose. It is not to be expected that many will return unscathed.’ ‘Thus with men, Spalt. What about women?’ ‘Women have no inner life that is so decisively apart. With women the inner life merges ever with the totality. "
― Robert Aickman , Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories