ocr: - pictured him lying there easily in his own world, tolerating my presence in it, but, I think, possibly sending me signals to which I did not know how to respond. And then I pictured myself beside him, testooned with the apparatus of my intelligence - my Goretex cagoule, my pen and paper, my autofocus matrix-metering Nikon F4, and my inability to comprehend any of - - the life we had left behind us in the forest.