#I haven’t finished this one bc I got sucked into The Horror Stretch thanks to our friend Ross Gibson

[briar-rolfes-research-oubliette]

Had he not heard how men had been lost in that awesome scrub, silent and impenetrable, which swallowed up its victims noiselessly?

The vacuum is just that—an absence; it is not malign, nor vengeful, nor understandable, but merely a vacuum into which children disappear.

—two bangers about being lost in the bush from The Country of Lost Children: An Australian Anxiety by Peter Pierce