Oh gods -- you had to make me think of that scene.
I was going to say that "bathic" is an understatement, but no, sinking is exactly what it does. Like a stone dropped into the Mariana Trench, but bathetic still encompasses that.
What little I've read of the introduction doesn't indicate any self-consciousness, but I haven't gotten very far.
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Date: 26 September 2010 10:54 pm (UTC)I was going to say that "bathic" is an understatement, but no, sinking is exactly what it does. Like a stone dropped into the Mariana Trench, but bathetic still encompasses that.
What little I've read of the introduction doesn't indicate any self-consciousness, but I haven't gotten very far.
---L.