thinking about this rn.
because it's in the middle, i remember it a little less (thanks, primary bias & recency bias) and it merges into the scenes before and after but it's been on my mind for a while;
corridors seem to be a common theme with the spiral, huh? even if it's only in his dreams, real-or-not-real doesn't seem to matter much when it comes to it-is-not-what-it-is.
ever wonder if he came across the distortion? or if the distortion had some hand in this?
it's also got me thinking about what @thermodynamic-comedian said about mike representing the movement aspect of the vast, of something that outpaces you - not because it's trying to show you up or leave you behind, but because you and your little area of space that you occupy are so tiny in comparison to the route it will travel.
'flesh peeling away', 'coursing, buzzing pain' - it just goes to show that he didn't always have the ability to move at such speeds without facing the constraints of the human body, and moving at death-defying paces wasn't always 'that wonderful border between terror & delight'.
and you know? i think that's part of what helped him become an avatar of the vast.
he feared it. he had within him the ability to fear it, but he also loved it; and i think in many ways, like the shape the lichtenberg figure took, he too, belonged to the sky.
for me, it reads like the only fear he ever held for the spiral was mixed with hatred.
