I hear it spiralling through empty buildings, along patches of scrubland, over bridges, under the canal.
Blundering down pitch-black corridors and caged walkways, as if you're trapped in some nightmare Gothic funhouse, you suddenly find yourself spiralling through a fully-furnished, 1950s ghost town.
Even the album's livelier numbers, such as "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go," can be wrenched into the abyss; on one take, the tempo drastically slows, giving an almost tragic tinge to a line like "I've only known careless love". The potential downside is a tendency toward relentlessness: one piece after another in the key of E, spiralling through love and loss.
Competing with massed percussion, the piano becomes the lava pouring forth from the series of orchestral eruptions which constitute Antiphonies, while Earth Dances (1985-6) has the orchestra alone, spiralling through cyclical strata of sound as if fishing to register on some musical Richter scale.
When at last he reached in to touch me, there was nothing else left, nothing in the world but his fingers and the delirious incoherent frenzy of pure sensation they sent spiralling through me, as though I were an instrument vibrating with the exquisite hymns of the angels.
The King is spiralling through mental states, from sorrow to insanity through a tunnel of rage, inviting nature to do its worst, and in so doing, undo itself: "And thou, all-shaking thunder," he thunders, "Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!" Soon, the Earl of Kent rushes onstage, meeting the storm more humanly than either of his scene mates: with open fear.
Playing feels like spiraling through a gigantic fishbowl while shooting at gnats.
Guests like Mario Batali, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy watched as Geoffrey Rush spiraled through insanity performing Nikolai Gogol's 1835 "Diary of a Madman".
In the vampire we find Eros and Thanatos fused together in archetypal embrace, spiraling through the ages, undying.
Included in the exhibit and the magazine are a series of oil paintings of Dorothy's house from "The Wizard of Oz" spiraling through the air.
The radio signals that make it show up come from electrons flowing in it as they spiral through the galactic magnetic field.
