This is it: this is the shore whose sands are pulverized, blackened quartz, and whose seas grow as pale as dark wine only in Homer's infectious imagination. This is where you endlessly stand looking seaward, quietly desperate for signs of ships, or lighthouses, or the lowliest sea mammal with which you might connect on a tenuous evolutionary level. This is not just loneliness, but the world reduced to those components heretofore unshaped by human expectation and need. This is it.
@dasmith Who wrote that and which sea is it referring to?
@SlowRain Me, and no sea in particular.
@dasmith It's quite poetic. But, if you don't mind me saying so, "evolutionary" makes it sound too science-y, and "heretofore" makes it sound too lawyer-y. Kinda breaks the wonderful flow a bit.
What are you writing?
@SlowRain Nothing. This was a fragment unto itself.
@dasmith It's really good for having no context behind it. A mood, perhaps?
@SlowRain Yeah. A late night home alone pleasantly tainted by Jeff VanderMeer's novel Annihilation and pessimist philosophers.
@dasmith I don't know if you've been too busy to see this, or maybe you're avoiding spoilers or any kind of taint. The trailer was just released for #Annihilation.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2798920/
#JeffVanderMeer
#AlexGarland
#NataliePortman
#Movies
#Scifi
#books
@SlowRain I just watched that before seeing your toot! I'll need to watch it again, but my first thought was "man, it all looked a lot different in my imagination." My second thought was "should've brought that book with me."