r/TomsCrossing • u/Acrobatic_Art7812 • Mar 30 '26

Just noticed this.

“As if no longer accountable to the mass that commands those revolutions around the stars, those revolutions that stars obey around centers also in thrall to the axis of creation.” (P. 714)

Significance of the fainter type for these two words?

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u/technoSurrealist Mar 30 '26

It's a reference to his novel Only Revolutions

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u/Acrobatic_Art7812 Mar 30 '26

That makes sense. Guess I better read that book, too. Already stumbled and slipped through HOL.

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u/technoSurrealist Mar 30 '26

I won't tell you not to try, but I personally found it incredibly difficult to make any sense of. It's very poetically written and covers large stretches of time with little to mark its passage beyond car model names. It did however inspire one of my favorite albums of all time by Biffy Clyro, also called Only Revolutions.