Love turned out to be soul-crippling, stomach-turning, weirdly claustrophobic: a sense of endlessness bottled up inside him, endless weight, endless potential, with only the small outlet of a shivering pale girl in a bad rain jacket to escape through.
In a song like Nachtzauber (Night Magic) we have all the sensuality of Wagner's endless melody, without the endlessness.
She later sat through an "endless" staff meeting at work — the endlessness, she joked, confirmed that Tuesday was the longest day of the year.
With a sure hand, she communicates both the intellectual dynamism of New York where "talk is a form of play"—and the blank endlessness of the Minnesota landscape.
And with their continual wave-like interlinking of one line into the next, their evenness and endlessness, so that it seemed she could go on singing them for ever in her limpid, lovely voice, they could only have come from the sea.Poison and honeyCertainly she began to sing beside it, in the harbour bars of the red-light district of Mindelo, the main town of São Vicente.
In the curvingly cave-like, broad interior corridor, whose terminus at the house's kitchen is visually delayed by the perspectival effect of that curve, a notional representation of endlessness, and an experience of enduring anticipation.
Nevertheless, I like the idea of irrational length, of infinity, of endlessness, although sometimes I feel uneasy about it.
The hockey playoffs are often mocked, by hockey doubters, for their seeming endlessness (hockey in June?) and for their relative lack of exclusivity.
The resulting sense of torment, endlessness, and absurdity puts one in mind of Kafka again.
For Mickey Sabbath, there is a constant veering between what he calls "the fantasy of endlessness" and "the fact of finitude".
And both the urge to create fiction and the urge to extend life belong to the magical fantasy of endlessness.
