horizontic collection of low-level risk and isolation

physic irruptions

so that the white stockings' rich violinish curves at the top of the insides of her legs in that white lisle are visible in backlit silhouette

an embrasure of sad windowlight shines through her legs

figurantless crowds

Referring at once to the persistence of eschatological discourse despite the failure of the prophesied apocalypse ever to arrive

the reifying shackles of apocalyptic discourse

she is a liminal horizon the novel repetitively posits

semiotic square