I can slaughter foot-soldiers or I can chase bats around the dank cavern systems.
But I have been told a hundred times how we climbed the steep slope to the Norman keep of Peveril Castle, marvelled at the stalactites that hung from the roof of Speedwell cavern (explored by boat on the subterranean lake) and - with the extravagance of desperation - paid two shillings and sixpence for scones and jam in one of the tea-rooms which still abound in Derbyshire's Peak District.
Descending by lift into this cavern of disco balls and sweeping lights, where stars such as Frank Sinatra used to hang out, you can't help feeling you've arrived in the lair of an especially camp Bond villain.
Made in Dagenham stirred my class hatred: we witness the contempt for these women not just in the bosses' tone and voice, but in the peeling, windy, sweating cavern in which they were employed.
LARA CROFT, adventurer and archaeologist, flees through an underground cavern from a pack of pursuing dogs, only to find her way blocked by a chasm.
Another is to fill a subterranean cavern with compressed air.
Air is pumped into the cavern, increasing its pressure, and then let out to drive a turbine.
It is buried in a cavern 2km underground in order to avoid the confusing effects of cosmic rays (which are absorbed by the covering rock).
And in a cavern in Gran Sasso in Italy, the highest part of the Apennines, an experiment is looking at another oscillation, that between muon- and tau-neutrinos.The search for delta, then, will soon be on in earnest and with it, the search for the reason why the universe is made of matter.
For compressed-air storage to work, therefore, the air released from the cavern has to be heated (usually by burning natural gas), otherwise it would freeze the turbine.
Mr Murakami's version is lurid and surreal, a thrilling mash-up of ancient imagery and trippy effects (detail pictured).One panel features a whale in stripes of yellow, green, lilac and blue, its mouth wide open like a cavern of infinity.
