"The Host in the Attic" teaser - dimmer and narrower than ever
Teaser for the video-book of Rohan Quine's novella "The Host in the Attic" - teaser VI(xxii) "dimmer and narrower than ever". // Then slowly, inexorably, his gaze travels away from the mirror. // It travels upwards and somewhat to one side, as if in order to see up through the walls and through the ceiling ... to the attic. // He gets up. He moves towards the doorway. He emerges from his bathroom door, looks to his hallway, and sets off towards it. // Reaching the hallway, he pauses, looking intently down its length. Looking, in particular, at the mouth of the narrow side-corridor that leads to the fire-escape door, the two smaller doorways, the ceiling hatch with the ladder... // He steps towards that mouth. Soon he reaches it. // And into it he turns. // He sets off down that initial, straight length of the narrow corridor. // He then makes a queasy, dream-like progress around those several corner-turnings, which seem, perhaps, to number even one more than they did last time. // Reaching the point where he will be able to see down the final stretch to the fire-door, he braces himself for a grating rush and that vision of the corridor walls as wet-breathing grey meat stuck with carving-knives ... his eyes now squinting and oozing tears in anticipation of it ... but this time it doesn't happen. // Instead, the corridor just stretches ahead of him: quieter, dimmer and narrower than ever. // He presses on, starting again to register his perceptions with that familiar floating motion, from lower down than his usual eye-height - from lower down, even, than he did before, so that this time it's not as if he's perceiving through eyeballs that are buried in his neck, but rather through eyes that peek from between the prison-bars of his ribs.