At a scheduled time two dozen or so young men, some on stilts, all with masks representing spirits and animals, silently emerge from behind high rocks.
With doors that scissor upward rather than open outward, and huge electrically controlled air scoops that silently emerge from the pronounced haunches, the Murciélago announces its owner's wealth, and ego, with an atomic bullhorn.
He also thought of a number of women he had known intimately but had not expected to remember; silently, they emerged from oblivion, their skin covered with sweat, infusing his restless spirit with something like serenity, although it wasn't altogether serene, perhaps not exactly a sense of adventure, but something like that.
They were emerging silently, like sleepwalkers, to find life as they had once known it long gone.
At 3pm, mourners, some of them bandaged and bloodied, emerge silently from their houses and pad barefoot across the scorched yellow field.
Like Afsana, they emerge, silently, from the backs of trucks, or simply appear at a police station or a refugee center-anywhere but the official points of entry where they could be detained or, more often than not, turned away.
What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from the rere of the house into the penumbra of the garden?
The game was finally called on account of darkness, but just before I left there was a bonus: Two black rhinos and a baby emerged silently from the bush and drank their fill not 20 feet away.
He dismounted and moved to enter the circle by climbing over the hitches of two adjoining wagons when the barrel of a bulky rifle emerged silently, viperlike from one of the canopies.
Just as the world's attention shifted from the worst outbreak of Ebola in history to the rapidly emerging Zika epidemic, another infectious disease silently claimed its place as the world's deadliest: Tuberculosis (TB).
