Recursive whirls set, adding and removing (fading) details.

“Men like Ivanov do not solve difficulties but collapse under their weight. They lose their heads, gesticulate, become nervous, complain, do silly things, and finally, giving rein to their flabby, undisciplined nerves, lose the ground under their feet and enter the class of the “broken down” and “misunderstood”.”
Anton Chekhov, Letters of Anton Chekhov to his Family and Friends