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The psychologist stepped into our rising panic with a strange assertion: "I talked to her late last night. What she saw in that, structure, unnerved her to the point that she did not want to continue with this expedition. She took a partial report with her so that our superiors will know our progress." The psychologist's habit of allowing a slim smile to cross her face at inappropriate times made me want to slap her.
— Mar 02, 2015 04:37PM
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But the longer I stared at it, the less comprehensible the creature became. The more it became something alien to me, the more I had a sense that I knew nothing at all--about nature, about ecosystems.
— Mar 03, 2015 06:24PM
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But I had begun to realize that you had to wage a guerilla war against whatever force had come to inhabit Area X if you wanted to fight at all. You had to fade into the landscape, or like the writer of the thistle chronicles, you had to pretend it wasn't there for as long as possible. To acknowledge it, to try to name it, might be a way of letting it in.
— Mar 03, 2015 09:01AM
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He died six months later. During all that time, I could never get beyond the mask, could never find the man I had known inside of him. Not through my personal interactions with him, not through eventually watching the interviews with him and the other members of the expedition, all of whom died of cancer as well. Whatever had happened in Area X, he had not come back. Not really.
— Mar 02, 2015 07:05PM
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All of this part of the country had been abandoned for decades, for reasons that are not easy to relate. Our expedition was the first to enter Area X for more than two years, and much of our predecessors' equipment had rusted, their tents and sheds little more than husks. Looking out over that untroubled landscape, I do not believe any of us could yet see the threat.
— Mar 02, 2015 02:32PM
