…The motorway out of the City of the Ranch Resort ran through a rainforest of fifty-three miles. This made occasional encounters with monkeys, foxes, hyenas and chimpanzees common events to motorists who plied it to the markets and towns that lay on its other side. There was an inn at mile forty-four. In it were fresh and barbecue buffaloes, antelopes and the oily rhinoceros on sale. Adie slid his Cadenza into a space nearby. “Stay in the car,” he said to his companion, a woman of near-equal height with his, as he sauntered into the tavern. “Why do moments lapse unnoticed? The cost of the tremendous wastage in our being rests in our unconsciousness of time’s passage. Ageing seems to surprise us.” Although these words faded into him from it while he climbed the stairs to the top floor of the bamboo-motel, aromas of soufflés, gingers and garlic had dominance in the air around. He assumed that some special festivity was either in the offing or being prepared for. “If we could ...
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