More quotes: Snake

I was about to throw away the aforementioned piece of paper when I found more things written on it that I want to keep/remember:

        The snake is deeply troubling because it has no form.

Scrawled next to this, the word protean. PM also said that the snake evokes for humans our own viscera, and thus distresses us:

        What should be on the inside and hidden [guts, intestines] is,
       in the snake, on the outside.

This exposure, this violation of boundaries, disturbs our sense of security and stability.

Hm.