It was my favorite game of distraction; a subconscious effort of crafting troubles so that I didn't have to think about what was really wrong with me — that I was
slowly going blind and there was nothing I could do about it.
Although I've never seen the film, I learned from a Google search that Dancer in the Dark is about a woman (played by Bjork) who is
slowly going blind and (spoiler alert) dies at the gallows after she is convicted of murder and treason.
Not exact matches
This cycle of winning here and there and then giving all your gains back, works to keep traders in a cycle of gambling in
blind hope, and it
slowly depletes their accounts until their
gone.