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she had it on the tip of her tongue to say
Lena struggles with her bindings, Thorensen battles with the bear, and we get sidetracked by Ungnyeo and the Korean origin myth in #Annihilation minute 77.
sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances
Radek kills the bear, the bear has a name, and Ventress prepares to leave on her own, in Annihilation minute 78.
that meagre fixity, that bare unloveliness
Ventress leaves. We linger on plant people. Radek settles in. Annihilation minute 79.
why take such a gloomy view of life
Lena sits beside Radek and we look into the Tao of water and self harm in Annihilation minute 80. IN A CRISIS? Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a Crisis Counselor ...
for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private
Lena and Radek talk, and we delve into the calm before ending things in Annihilation minute 81. We can all help prevent suicide. The National Suicide Prevention Lifel...
the sense that everything this morning was happening for the first time, perhaps for the last time
Radek gives in to the shimmer and Lena is left alone in #Annihilation minute 82.
what was the spirit in her, the essential thing, by which, had you found a glove in the corner of a sofa, you would have known it, from its twisted finger, hers indisputably?
Lena, future, past, present, alone. And we discuss the inclusion of #HenriettaLacks in #Annihilation minute 83.
her horizon seemed to her limitless
From Lena's past to her present, alone on the shore, samsara, dukkha, and the crystalline structures that connect us together. Annihilation minute 84.
which curved and welled and broke upon the beach
In the novel, Lena sees a pair of dolphins; in the script, she picks up a skull at the scene of a massacre; in the film she marches past crystalline trees and a makesh...
beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep
Lena enters the lighthouse and finds something unexpected in #Annihilation minute 86.
watching it with fascination, hypnotised
Lena finds camcorder footage of the previous expedition, and in the script we see a lot more of what happened to them, in #Annihilation minute 87.
her husband spoke. he was repeating something
From Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf to Aristotle to the Tao, from infant recognition of self to depersonalization, and from Kane to Kane to Lena, #Annihilation minute 88.
when life sank down for a moment
One Kane sits contemplating his self, another Kane waits out of frame to be revealed, and we begin to explore the Jungian shadow self in #Annihilation minute 89.
all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be
From Cain & Abel to phosphorous grenades, the birth of elements within stars to Buddha on a lotus flower, Kane burns, Lena watches, and others linger nearby in #Annihi...
this core of darkness could go anywhere
In the script, Lena finds strange living sculptures beneath the lighthouse, flashback to the biologist finding the living writing in the tower in the novel; in the fil...
there was always a woman dying of cancer even here
An eyeless Dr Ventress quotes Samuel Beckett, and Lena enters the alien chamber in #Annihilation minute 92.
all the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated
Beneath the lighthouse, Ventress (as solificatio, as death's head, as the sun) speaks for the last time as the shimmer takes over. #Annihilation minute 93.
a wedge-shaped core of darkness
Ventress explodes into living light and Lena looks on, in #Annihilation minute 94.
in the midst of chaos there was shape; this eternal passing and flowing
As Lena stares into the alien light in #Annihilation minute 95, we delve into Ballardian fiction, the history of fractal geometry, plus Groundhog Day and masculine vs ...
and it seemed to her like her own eyes meeting her own eyes
We start to delve into details from the second #SouthernReach novel, #Authority, as the mandelbulb transforms into a featureless humanoid and Lena reacts violently in ...
