unnatural histories (two)

open sky_
H.H was holed up in a single room in the Desert Inn Hotel in Las Vegas for 15 years, endlessly watching Sturges'"ICE STATION ZEBRA"

a technological monk that was not only polar inertia incarnate but, more importantly, the first inhabitant of an increasingly mass situation/the quest for the progress of speed without the knowledge of the engine's exterminating character.

closed sky_
nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes (B)
he no longer arrives at, achieves, anything (K)
he shed his wings in a fall from grace into a corpse like fixedness (M)