You know descent’s all about. You’ve read about katabasis, haven’t you? The old literary trope. Like in Virgil. Like in Dante. The trip to the underworld. Our hero’s journey. Our quest for transformation and enlightenment …
Endarkenment, motherfucker. It’s not about light. It’s about darkness – the darkness of the earth that extinguishes all light. Sure. We’ll come out of this changed. We’ll be unrecognisable. Born again, somehow, from the womb of the earth.