The desolation.

This is like a teaser for a movie. There is nothing made yet, but the idea is there and the money has already been collected. The Darkness, it turns out, isn't a finality. It's kind of like a larval stage in a bug's development. It's only part of the whole. I found a new place, called the Desolation. It is an emptying of the mind caused by terror or utter shock at the non-reality of the world around you. It's the brief mind-fuck of seeing the world completely differently than you have ever seen it before. I saw a clown walking down the street today with a flay that said the word "shoes" several hundred times tied around its neck like a cape. The clown did not have a painted face, it just had a clown mask with a twisted smile so that you could not see eyeballs, if indeed a human was under the mask at all. The clown was walking with a swagger, a confident swagger. The clown just strolled down the street and around the corner. I think a child cried. It turned my mind into porridge. It was utterly blank. No thoughts, no emotions, just an image that I could never have dreamed, or imagined, or likely even find again in the history of mankind.