Binstead's Safari (2013)
“They started out so early that it was still dark.
They started out so early that it was still dark. And cold. The air was as clear as it would have been right up in the mountains. Stan hardly spoke. He had a slight hangover—nothing really painful and certainly not on the scale he had suffered in London, but something else bothered him, too. He sensed again the dread that had visited him two days before. So far there was merely his own faint misgiving rather than a definite presence; but, ev...en so, it was disagreeable.
He didn’t want to think about his brother, or about London, yet now he assumed that this physical oppression had to be connected with a period of his life that had already gone—it was his past catching up with him: all the regrets and anger and moments of bad conscience that he’d pushed away from him at the time in order to get to more unused and untainted life, more pleasures. He would never have associated the feeling with the future.MoreLess
They started out so early that it was still dark. And cold. The air was as clear as it would have been right up in the mountains. Stan hardly spoke. He had a slight hangover—nothing really painful and certainly not on the scale he had suffered in London, but something else bothered him, too. He sensed again the dread that had visited him two days before. So far there was merely his own faint misgiving rather than a definite presence; but, ev...en so, it was disagreeable.
He didn’t want to think about his brother, or about London, yet now he assumed that this physical oppression had to be connected with a period of his life that had already gone—it was his past catching up with him: all the regrets and anger and moments of bad conscience that he’d pushed away from him at the time in order to get to more unused and untainted life, more pleasures. He would never have associated the feeling with the future.MoreLess
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