good quote, I was thinking of Clavell's "Shogun" at the end when Blackthorne tries to sepaku and is stopped "mid-stroke" by Toranaga. Blackthorne is almost catatonic and Toranaga's son asks if he is injured.

Toranaga tells him, that no, B. is not injured but he has gone to "another place" in his mind and that it will take him a while to make the journey back.

I am still "hiking back". There doesn't seem to be any Uber service where I have gone and the road is long.