VLVL2 (15): "So long, Brock"

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379.24:  "As he stared out the window, Brock realized that around them all this time had been rising a wall of earth each side of the narrowing road, in which tree roots twisted overhead now, and mud, once glistening, had grown darker, till only its smell was present.  And soon, ahead, came the sound of the river, echoing, harsh, ceaseless [...] 

'They'll take out your bones,' Vato explained.  'The bones have to stay on this side.  The rest of you goes over.  You look a lot different, and you move funny for a while, but they say you'll adjust.  Give these third-worlders a chance, you know, they can be a lotta fun.'

'So long, Brock,' said Blood."



[...] "The traditional placement of the realm of Hades was underground, with many places across the Greek world claiming to hold the entrance. The main entrance to Tartarus was said to lie between a group of black poplar trees that lined the side of the River Oceanus. It was here the newly departed were met by Charon the ferryman. 

"For the price of an obol, Charon would carry the spirits across the River Styx in his ship of the dead. The unlucky ghosts who were sent to their end without a penny were left stranded on the river bank where they would remain forever. Their only recourse would be to sneak away from their guide Hermes and make their way down a back entrance." [...]

http://www.geocities.com/medea19777/hades.html


Brock has become a "shade" of sorts (Yurok belief)?

Brock as Thanatoid??