Just Looking ...

While I was looking over the reading for Zizek in the course reader, I came across the section entitled "The 'Thirteenth Floor' of the Fantasy Space", which described the disproportion between inside and outside. While reading the little excerpt from The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag where the characters roll down the window of the car that they're driving and find that the "grey and formless mist" was slowly drifting inside the car, I was reminded of this Stephen King story I read called The Mist (which was recently turned into a motion picture), where this mist overtakes this town and is hiding something sinister (monsters that threaten the safety of the people in the town). The mist in this story traps everyone, and whoever ventures out is attacked by the monsters and is never seen again. (For a better synopsis, check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mist) Both mists in the stories represents the "unreal" that the people in the car are separated from, but once they come into contact with the mist, there is the potential that they'll be subjected to something beyond their reality. I might be getting it confused, but I just wanted to put it out there. :D