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"The place is here. The time is now. And the journey into the shadows that we are about to watch could be our journey."
A man is silhouetted against a country road and we are told this is a journey into the shadows only to have the man walk into the light, pick up a stick, as anyone might do. We hear big band music, subverting our expectations that something is wrong. The deserted country road gives way to a roadside café, a reststop. An injection of civilization into the wild, taming it, subduing it. A hop in the man's step betrays an assumption of familiarity. He knows what to expect as he opens the front door. How quickly is that expectation is subverted by a diner which has all the sensory information it should; the checkered table clothes, the music, the smell of coffee on the stove, but absent is the reason for this sensory input. There is no one here.
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