Atdtda23: [46.1i] A passionate heart, 653

[Paul Nightingale]

[653.7-9] Old-timers on the crew ... when they first penetrated the
mountain, prepared to fight frozen rock, had found instead a passionate
heart, a teeming interiority...

Cf. Fleetwood's take on Africa, on 168:

In Africa he had known saintly lieutenants who were fated to die young, ...
who would emerge from the green otherworld after months, their cargo
vanished not only from possession but from memory as well, sick, poisoned,
too often dying, cursed by shamans, betrayed by magnetic anomalies, racked
by Guinea worm and malaria, who, despite all, wished only to return to the
embrace of the interior ...

Or the fate of the Vormance Expedition, eg on 149:

"It deceived us into classifying it as a meteorite, you see ..."

"The object?"

"The visitor."

"Your whole Expedition got hypnotised by a rock? That what you're asking us
to believe?"