Those Explorers Club, Arctic waste sections of Against the Day

[Mark Kohut]

As I try to formulate some posts about these sections of AtD...talk about
richly ambiguous
allegory or near to it, right?, I ran into this picture on
Facebook---therefore not visible to some of you, I gather--
that speaks to a large part of those sections,  I would argue.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10219092247642852&set=a.1131087403144&type=3&theater