He went solitary and starlit through the sleepfast countryside, trotting soundlessly on his softworn shoes, past dead houses and dark land with the odor of ripe and humid fruits breathing in the fields and nightbirds crying in the keep of enormous trees. The road climbed up out of the woods and went on through farmland and he slowed to a walk, his hands slung in his hippockets and his elbows flapping, taking a dirt road down to the right, padding along soft as a dog, sniffing the rank grass and the odor of dust the dew had laid.
His descriptive skill in the depiction of nature, sights, smell and touch, is at the same time matter of fact, yet full of respect and awe...I might add, his keen description of the industrial wasteland, detritus and pollutions of civilization is equally impressive, both matter of fact, keen and attentive to man's rot.
