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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