spiral of diminishing returns
"Spiral of Diminishing Returns," June 25, 2022 (#176)
title from Screening Stephen King: Adaptation and the Horror Genre in Film and Television by Simon Brown (2018)
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence (1915)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
Gravity (2013)
last line from Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow by Rainbow Rowell (2015)
Spiral of Diminishing Returns
A deep, gathering coldness of isolation took hold
at a slant across his caped immensity, looking so improbable
wearing a space suit is even harder - the joints of the
rind of the world: houses, factories, trams, the discarded
main interest seemed to be in enforcing a curfew
scared shitless. But that's not the point. We fight to
follow. Sun and moon travelled on, and left
nesting in the rafters, remains of beds with a moldy
orb and the infinite universe stretching out beyond
all the future was in her hands, in the hands of the
cherries as big as ping-pong balls, and popcorn in melted
fireflies hovering outside the window. It would be
just being around magic. Casual, ambient magic. People.
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