Things were infinitely darker during the Ring period, 1994-6.
Though "The Damned" is infinitely darker than either of those films, it, too, seems to be dancing around the central issue.
Or they are hierarchies which can be co-opted into infinitely darker schemes, as the emerging scale and dynamics of child sexual abuse in the game is showing.
The Russian sons of Byron's Superfluous Man, Childe Harold, are stranger, darker and infinitely more interesting.
But is infinite information infinitely valuable?
The Norse Gods are sensible, unimaginative folk, with the exception of Loki, the Frost Giant who lives with them and is crafty, cunning, capable of getting them into trouble and out of it, until the dark tales that take us into Ragnarok and the end of the world, when Loki becomes darker, nastier and infinitely more dangerous.
Rather, his "Transitive Refraction for John Oswald" was conceived as an homage to the name-checked Toronto sound artist and his ground-breaking 1994 release, Grayfolded, which obliterated and reconfigured several hundred live recordings of the Dead's "Dark Star" into infinitely rippling symphonies.
Her tone is darker, the control is infinitely stronger, and her range sounds as if it had gained an entire lower octave.
If The Dark Knight was an infinitely better film than Batman Begins and it was might even NYC fanboys now admit that the improvement was because of Chicago, not in spite of it?
The book that brought me together with her was a dull sermon on an approaching "dark age"; her conversational aphorisms were infinitely better than the text.
The dark bobbed hair, the perfect complexion, the infinitely expressive face, the graceful movement have made her a much-imitated, though ultimately inimitable, icon, a figure both strong and vulnerable, innocent and experienced, earthily erotic and divinely ethereal.
