Hal horizontal in V.R.5 (pp. 900–901)
There seemed to be so many implications even to thinking about sitting up and standing up and exiting V.R.5 and taking a certain variable-according-to-stride-length number of steps to the stairwell door, on and on, that just the thought of getting up made me glad I was lying on the floor.
Context
Hal keeps thinking he "really should go up and check on The Darkness" — and this is why he doesn't. Volition itself has become combinatorially explosive; the sentence enacts the exhaustion it describes. Kate Gompert "without the juice to get up and walk away" and Green's paralyzed sofa-depression have arrived at E.T.A.'s star.