…and set down the load. Throughout the making of breakfast the events of the last evening were re discussed and dissected. Vanessa and Dave were unmoved by Dennis's excited assertion that some extremely peculiar energy field had been tapped into and verified.…

…Florencia and come with us into the Amazon. We piled on a vintage Colombian air force plane and then landed at Florencia: Dave, Vanessa, ev Dennis and I, ev's dog and ten tons of equipment which was to be transported down the putumayo. Sia was at the…

…myself were my brother, the youngest and least traveled of us a student of botany and a colleague of long standing. Vanessa, an old school friend of mine from the experimental college in Berkeley, trained in anthropology and photography and traveling on her…

…should go. A delegation, who should it be? Dennis nominated Dave and myself, calling Dave the least skeptical, me the most. Vanessa objected to me as most skeptical, suggesting instead that Dave and Dennis should go. I heartily agreed not actually wishing…

…that poetry is made at the edge of running water. It had something to do with that I believed, and I was pondering it. Vanessa and ev were in front of me at the water's edge washing directly across the river from us lay the southeasterly direction in…

…stay with a mound of supplies, so we hid them in the bushes away from the shore and then started down the trail. Vanessa brought her box of cameras, I carried my telescoping fiberglass lepidopteran net bought in a collector's supply shop in shinjuku as a…

…to address us all equally, Guzman spoke: my wife shares my professional interests. How fortunate. It must make it much easier. Vanessa offered yes. The flat reply became an unnerving pause. I decided to Face the issue directly. Doctor, our apologies for…

…that served as the step into the hut. Is this the healing of my Split Tea that my astrologer foretold for this time scorpio? Vanessa asked of no one in particular. Dennis ate nothing. Ev and I shared a light meal with our guests. They wished us good…

…I saw vanessa leading Dennis Toward the river house. I could sense that the situation was more difficult than I had hoped. Vanessa was angry and had seized the situation to drive home her point. It seemed that Dennis must have bolted from his hammock…

…engine, an echo of the larger engines further away in time. Yes, Dennis came with the first. These others different histories. Vanessa and I had been together in the experimental college at Berkeley. She was from New York, the upper east side. Father,…

…the inner assurance that worry is preposterous and seeing that I had completely lost control of the situation, I agreed to all suggestions. Vanessa had more news. An airplane was coming. It was not coming to take us out but it would enable us to begin…

…means not yet clear, a bag was hastily packed. The airplane came skimming in and then it was gone again and we were four. Vanessa and ev became Dennis nurses. He was moved to the river house and I preferred to continue to live at the jungle house to…

…took place at dawn on the 14th of March. The following day at 11 a m the airplane arrived unannounced but not unexpected. Vanessa had been anticipating it for three days. It was a matter of a few moments to clamber aboard after saying farewell to the…

…the jungles and mountains of South America a world even more spellbinding than he expected. To this day he has not returned. Vanessa, Dave and I gathered in Victoria, British Columbia Near the gnashing beast, but not yet of it. We lived there three…

…with the comment that you cannot receive a proper initiation unless you are naked. Dennis insisted that we take off our clothes. Vanessa peeled and Dave and I followed her example. The presence of the mushroom was there and it seemed to be saying: take…

…will arrive at El Encanto. There. If present plans hold, we will meet Dr Guzman. The tensions that divide us have also surfaced. Vanessa and Sia, who have very little in common, are warm friends. Is this because I have miffed vanessa? It is not going…