Perhaps this is why Brooks embedded five shadowy black heads in the back of the looming armchair in which Van Vechten sits.
The scenes were disturbing: a slave child wielding a machete; a black woman holding a staff topped with a severed head; shadowy figures running at breakneck speed to escape the horrors around them.
For some reason, words weren't enough quite yet to describe the shadowy scenes in my head, so I began outlining with pictures.
Iran's shadowy commander Qassem Suleimani, head of the Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, is organising the counterattack against the Sunni jihadis.
Soon, a shadowy company called FutureWorld, headed by a shark with the Pynchonesque name of Alec Charnoble, poaches him.
"That is Eslom," Emery Thompson said, pointing to one of the shadowy forms above our heads, "and the one with the pink rump is Bubbles, carrying her child Basuta".
Kayani, a chain-smoker who previously headed the shadowy Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, is now poised to forge Pakistan's foreign policy at a crucial moment in neighbouring Afghanistan, where the army is manoeuvring to forge a political settlement that includes elements of the Taliban insurgency.
Weeks later, with no reply from Mr. Bremer, she shook her head in the shadowy light of her office, darkened by one of frequent blackouts here.
The head of a shadowy cell of veteran Al Qaeda operatives known as the Khorasan Group, he was killed while traveling in his vehicle near the Turkish border in the Syrian town of Sarmada.
Karpov has but one request for her: He would like to make contact with Thomas Brue (Dafoe), the head of a shadowy private bank who took over from his father.
