saturated. I could see little point in another effort. All around me the darkness pressed in, a dark darkness, shimmering and glowing like some hideous dark thing.

I walked onwards a few miles, pondering and sifting my ponderous thoughts, weighing each article of consciousness in my mind as if weighing collossal large objects in some great weighing thing. I could make no sense of any of it, and a deep dejection settled deeply over my troubled mind.