About half way between West Egg and New York the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.
Black Myth: Wukong crafts a stunning dreamscape with Chinese scenery, featuring desolate mountains, ancient roads, pavilions among mountains and water, deserts and ancient temples.
The British explorer Wilfred Thesiger crossed it in the mid-20th century and he said it was named Rub al-Khali or " Empty Quarter" because it's so enormous and so desolate.
Unexpectedly, at least to me, I felt nostalgia for what I had escaped, so I realized that although I don't regret my choice of working alone instead of among people, being too desolate wasn't great either.