I have just come down from my father. Higher and higher he lies Above me in a blue light Shed by a tinted window. - James Dickey

I was standing in the most absolute aloneness that I had ever been given.

Drunk on the wind in my mouth,
Wringing the handlebar for speed,
Wild to be wreckage forever.

What a view, I said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But it was not seeing, really. For once it was not just seeing. It was beholding. I beheld the river in its icy pit of brightness, in its far-below sound and indifference, in its large coil and tiny points and flashes of the moon, in its long sinuous form, in its uncomprehending consequence.