Russell...

More than brave, I felt there was so much more to this person who envisioned far more than what met his eyes. The daunting images of smell & life along with death (the cries of agony at the throat of the gannet) was piercing and yet there is something equally intriguing about the describer describing. Anticipating arriving at that kind of "edge", so to speak has to be a transformational experience. I loved the image of the island "suffocating in the original gases of earth".