"But sometimes he looked more like Artaud coming out of some heavy heart-of-darkness trip, overloaded on the information, the input!" Mr. Page had shared some of those journeys into darkness, and his visit to Pkhar Doung was the latest of many searches in what he called "a 25-year madness" in pursuit of the bones of the man he calls his brother.
The young man hears him and vaguely recalls a wound in his side whose scar still aches, darkness, a trip.
But we had mistimed our trip: darkness fell.
There's Little Judy Girl, who childishly laughs, giggles and scrunches her face; Gravelly Voice, a raspy-voiced man; Squeaky, who can barely articulate her thoughts; the One Who Walks in Darkness, who blindly trips over furniture, and Big Judy, who's competent, funny and self-empowered.
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Under cover of darkness Intrepid also made night trips to ferry men and materiel to creeks and inlets, and sent in a landing craft to act as a minesweeper, clearing channels using a piece of magnetised equipment so heavy that Intrepid's procedure of "docking down" in order to use it was fraught with danger.
It becomes our flashlight to hand to others who are still tripping in the darkness like we once were.
He said the trip through the predawn darkness had been uneventful and quiet.
And the chocolate and espresso ganache tart with macadamia nut brittle is a delirious trip into the heart of darkness.
A quick dip into the book, however, suggests a discombobulating trip into the heart of darkness, where unknown, unearthly horrors lurk.
