"The fear gets released later on, while I'm falling asleep and near-misses replay themselves in my mind's eye like an endless computer game fraught with constant hazards, in which I'm a disembodied Steadicam hurtling through busy city streets at the same speed something falls, pedestrians appearing out of nowhere, the broad flat fronts of busses expanding with terrifying suddenness in my peripheral vision."
— Kreider, Tim (b. 1967)
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Date
May 7, 2012
Metaphor
"The fear gets released later on, while I'm falling asleep and near-misses replay themselves in my mind's eye like an endless computer game fraught with constant hazards, in which I'm a disembodied Steadicam hurtling through busy city streets at the same speed something falls, pedestrians appearing out of nowhere, the broad flat fronts of busses expanding with terrifying suddenness in my peripheral vision."
Metaphor in Context
The fear gets released later on, while I'm falling asleep and near-misses replay themselves in my mind's eye like an endless computer game fraught with constant hazards, in which I'm a disembodied Steadicam hurtling through busy city streets at the same speed something falls, pedestrians appearing out of nowhere, the broad flat fronts of busses expanding with terrifying suddenness in my peripheral vision. Occasionally I jerk briefly awake just before being obliterated. These are the dreams that make dogs twitch and snarl.
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Reading
Citation
Tim Kreider, "Cycle of Fear," New York Times (May 7, 2012). <Link to NYTimes.com>
Date of Entry
05/08/2012
