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<<terror soils underpants>>
Terror is a response to a real or perceived present danger. Horror is a response such a danger as mediated by time, telling, or image, or in some other way: the danger is not present, but is represented as present in a recounted situation.
Horror is also a moral response, often to a terrifying situation, suggesting that moral judgment, like the horror, requires the mediation of an account.
Terror is also a generalized fear of a purposely heightened likelihood of present danger. Terror, in this sense, shares the immediacy of the first meaning, and the mediation of horror and judgment: a legend of terror is a political force.
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