with his fingers locked together , he leaned back to the furthest extent of his arms and began twirling around the silver post , accelerating faster and faster with each revolution he made , until so fast was the rate of his turning that he became a whispering silver disc shrinking in size and increasing in speed and thereby reducing the boundaries between himself and the universe to an inaudible shriek of shimmering light growing warmer and warmer and turning faster and faster and getting smaller and smaller and speeding inward toward the very origin of his own time he became a bright incandescent blistering hot burning fiery red yellow blue violet invisible-light .