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While on a boating holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray. A few weeks later, following a series of medical examinations, he can no longer deny the extraordinary truth. Not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was. Scott Carey has begun to shrink. Richard Matheson's novel follows through its premise with remorseless logic, with Carey first attempting to continue some kind of normal life and later having left human contact behind, having to survive in a world where insects and spiders are giant adversaries. And even that is only a stage on his journey into the unknown.… (mere)
sturlington: Similar in many ways. Each stays in the head of a solitary hero, isolated by unnatural events beyond his control, struggling to hold onto his sanity and his sense of self.
Scott Carey bliver mindre dag for dag - 3 mm om dagen og han var 185 cm høj, da det startede, så hans dage er talte. Omslaget viser ham i krig med en edderkop.
Fortællingen er elementært spændende selv om fysikken bag er rent vås. Vi forlader ham, da han er blevet så lille at en vanddråbe er som et bjerg, dvs submillimeter. Bogen kan selvfølgelig også læses allegorisk som en fortælling om en mand, der langsomt mister sin verden. "Måske er han et eller andet sted uden for dit vindue lige nu." ... "Måske er han et andet sted. Ingen ved det." ( )
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First he thought it was a tidal wave.
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Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought.
Responsibility in the jungle world was pared to the bone of basic survival. There were no political connivings necessary, no financial arenas to struggle in, no nerve-knotting races for superior rungs on the social ladder. There was only to be or not to be.
To love someone when there was nothing to be got from that person; that was love.
But to nature there was no zero. Existence went on in endless cycles. It seemed so simple now. He would never disappear, because there was no point of non-existence in the universe.
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While on a boating holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray. A few weeks later, following a series of medical examinations, he can no longer deny the extraordinary truth. Not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was. Scott Carey has begun to shrink. Richard Matheson's novel follows through its premise with remorseless logic, with Carey first attempting to continue some kind of normal life and later having left human contact behind, having to survive in a world where insects and spiders are giant adversaries. And even that is only a stage on his journey into the unknown.
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Fortællingen er elementært spændende selv om fysikken bag er rent vås. Vi forlader ham, da han er blevet så lille at en vanddråbe er som et bjerg, dvs submillimeter.
Bogen kan selvfølgelig også læses allegorisk som en fortælling om en mand, der langsomt mister sin verden.
"Måske er han et eller andet sted uden for dit vindue lige nu." ... "Måske er han et andet sted. Ingen ved det." ( )