--- W A X W E B --- { 39:56 / 1:25:00 } --- { Mountains : Rocky } ---

He told me that there were demons in the desert.

	The rear mountains swallow the horizon. They have the shape of a phoneme-waveform, a vowel caught in a sky throat, a warning sigh meant to waken you to an alertness which, in the middle of your worry, will allow you to see the setting sun colors prism'd by the mineral contour of the eroding mountain slopes, bright light shining here at the edge of space and Humanity's immortal empire of breath.

39:56

The Monastery:

A very short time after Jacob is abandoned by the dancing letters, he arrives at a half-finished adobe monastery hidden in the desert scrub. There, between the open roofed walls of library still under construction, Jacob talks to an Orthodox monk who advises him that there are bees many miles down range, hived within the monument marker at Trinity Site, where the Army lit the first plutonium bomb.