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Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

In an abandoned, decaying asylum, long-forgotten in the countryside surrounding the town. And tormented, vile things are appearing out of nowhere... or are they?
 
I have been, quite literally and along with about forty other people, blown out of my boots and into a nearby lake. The still smoldering ship that crash-landed us here only yesterday has just gone up in a fiery explosion.
 
I am in the Museum of Natural History, Paris with my teacher Louis Agassiz . In a kind of "master class" where I am learning to classify and describe - through Cuvier's methodologies - the specimens of fossil fishes from the Eocene-Era that were found in the Monte Bolca, Italy . Actually, my task is also supervised by Achille Valenciennes, a highly knowledgeable person in Paleozoology .
 
Waking in a dark room in a bed that is not my own after the battle at King's Landing trying to understand why it seems that I do not have a mouth.
 
In a small mining town in Chile, re-enacting Hollywood movies for the rest of the town since there's only enough money to send one person to the cinema.
 
I'm in 1940s America, standing in the dark beside a train destined for New York while the engineers try to figure out how we can get moving again.
 
In the remote Karakoram mountain Range, Pakistan with Bill Tilman , Eric Shipton , the topographer Michael Spencer, the geologist John Auden and a group of Sherpas and coolies in 1938. We are exploring the Basin of the Shaksgam River and the region of the Aghil Mountains, a geographical tangle of places entirely unknown in maps but thanks to our theodolite's readings and also the Tilman's & Shipton's skill for climbing peaks -sometimes 2 in a single day- our expedition have achieved a real Cartography of this region .
 
In the Old Man of Hoy ( the Orkney Islands, Scotland ) a sunday morning on July 9th, 1967 . Dougal Haston & Peter Crew are really eager for climbing the South-East Arête, a face of this old red Sandstone still "without routes " till today, I am sure ! -Ok, I'm already ready for broadcasting this adventure !!
 
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