Re: Favorite Part of a Shrinking Sequence?
Thanks for the kind words, everyone.
The sneezing ended up being a good metaphor for what I think is many people's favorite moment: "realizing it's about to happen; not wanting it to happen; being unable to stop it." That describes a real sneeze that we're all familiar with so it's very relatable.
It happened to work well for video, but I think in literature there are other shrinking methods that work even better since they can be described in more detail:
- Orgasms coupled with being-too-horny-to-stop (as in "Always Follow the Directions" from the Minimizer's site)
- Cold, emotionaless computers executing pre-set code (as in my video "The Photographer" or that often-seen book "Short Time")
- Evil characters who can not be reasoned with (too many to count, but Johannes Lowe's "Sentenced and Shrunk" always comes to mind for me)
I think that "loss of control" is the base level of our fetish here and all of these are just different ways of dressing that up. The differences are where the fun lies. I'm always excited to come across one I've never seen before!
|