Except that Graham is not interested in the universe, which is a vertiginous abstraction; she's interested in the planet whose air we breathe and on whose roads we walk.
Least excited about: Climbing the interminable steps to the press box at the Stadium of Light – the Premier League's most vertiginous which is so high you are divorced from the atmosphere.
This produces a sense of vertiginous complexity, which is accentuated by the fact that the wall against which the staircase is set slopes away from you.
The composition is what first arrests the viewer's gaze: a stark metal fretwork, within which there are vertiginous glimpses of a distant Champ de Mars far below, on which the painter's extended limbs – even his paintbrush – form an integral part of the geometry.
But I did savor again the vertiginous spell of Black Narcissus (1947), which is probably one of the saner movies in their oeuvre but still comes across as a bizarre cross between a fairy tale and a Freudian drama.
As if the St . Vincent Streethill were not vertiginous enough, Thomson built a big podium (inside which is the church) with two ceremonial doors.
I got my bearings from the castle's tower, which is open to anyone willing to climb four flights and a vertiginous ladder to the top, 35m above the village.
But the resulting pictures are similar in depicting vertiginous, dynamic, seemingly infinitely continuous interactions the whole of which is not just a picture, but a process.
With Tintin, there is concern over not only the flying but also a series of bicycle chases across the vertiginous white wooden alps that fill the stage of the Barbican, which is co-producing with the Young Vic.
Also absent was the novel's urgent spirit, the vertiginous sense of events careering out of control as the characters' various obsessions and destinies intersect, which is what makes it such a gripping read.
