Now the cloud we track across our television screens as a harbinger of all those things is touched with the ancient and divine: a vast, swirling eye.
And if some kindly old dears should totter through, clanking against their Zimmer frames, the vast eye above them will taste their frailty in the air, narrow its gaze in their direction and start furiously flashing large-print advertisements for life insurance, bath lifts, Dignitas.
And if some kindly old ladies should totter through, clanking against their walker frames, the vast eye above them will taste their frailty in the air, narrow its gaze in their direction, and start furiously flashing large-print advertisements for life insurance, bath lifts, Dignitas.
This is partly because she is so flawless, she seems almost enamelled – the dazzle of the mother-of-pearl teeth when she smiles, the click of manicured nails on the table to emphasise a point – and partly because when she widens those vast eyes, they sparkle with Joan Crawford's diamond glint, rather than beseeching with Cheryl Cole's chocolate-button liquidity.
White walls, highlighted with lemon-yellow, papaya-orange and sky-blue highlights, are nearly obscured by a vast array of eye candy: folkloric figurines in straw, ceramic and plastic; sombreros in sundry sizes and styles; pressed-tin cacti; paper flowers; various types of bottles; vintage and stylized photos and art pictures.
In an era when so many books and films seem concerned with the self and the now, John Keene's recent story collection, Counternarratives, opens a vast and vital eye toward the past, while charting inspired new imagined territories.
Independent evolution has resulted in a vast diversity of eyes.
His complexion exceedingly fair – he was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College"? 3 Who infatuated Henry James, though: "… magnificently ugly – deliciously hideous … a low forehead, a dull grey eye, a vast pendulous nose …" ? 1 Mark Twain was overjoyed to learn the word "lagniappe".
This was a vast inefficiency in his eyes – but one that got him thinking.
Space opera lends itself to the depiction of grand dimensions and great duration, but it's one thing to talk big, quite another to present a vast universe through the eyes of fully rounded characters without the former overshadowing the latter.
