A friend of mine met with an accident driving in darkness. His car clashed as it deviated1 from the road and his legs were so hurt that he couldn’t move. What was the worst was he found himself unable to ask for help—his mobile phone went out of work as a result of exhausted2 battery. Nothing could be done but to wait in cold wilderness, to say nothing of the ominous3 darkness. It was 8 hours later that day broke, and then the arrival of the rescue.
It is almost unimaginable4 how a badly wounded man in absolute desertion could stand the horror magnified5 by darkness for as long as 8 hours. Even more surprising was his explanation: “First of all I checked up my physical