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The most interesting sensation was ironically the very best sound at the show.

Friday night around 2AM I found myself completely lost in the Nevada desert approximately 40-50 mines from Vegas. To understand how it was it should be explained that the CES days were rainy days with very low and very dark clouds. So, I was driving, following the wrong mapquest direction, smoking my Cohibas, and thinking about something completely unrelated to the road… Any signs of civilization ended many miles back but for whatever reasons it did not alarmed me. I was driving throughout some kind of mountains because there was snow on the ground and I the road was waving up and down very aggressively. It was dark, very dark and I was not able to see anything inches away from my window….

Eventually after 1 more hour of driving the road ended. I mean I saw cactuses when asphalt should be not to mention that the road long time ago lost any sighn of an urbane asphalt. Here I started to pay attention that I am not exactly where I intended to be….

I stopped the car and stepped out. It was not just wonderful out there but it was unspeakably magnificent. It was cold, dark so much that I did not see my hands and it was a compete absent of any sounds. That silence was shocking! A friend of mine told me that he experience the similar driving in Arizona, I know this feeling from my boat trips in Black See when I was young, but here it was very different. The complete silence was accompanied by a spectacular “space” and a complete absents of any visual sensationss...

In few minutes when the sensitively on the inner-ear amplifier boost itself up I begin to hear how the engine of my car was cooling down. I stepped far enough from my car in order do not hear it. After spending I guess 10-15 minuts in there, being submersed in that stunning sensory depravation chamber I decided that it was too cold and it was time to go back. Here I realized that I have no idea where is my car was.

A biblical fear attacked me. I was so frighten, as I never was before. It was so dark that I did  see absolutely anything and I was in total sensory vacuum. I begin to walk to a direction where I thought the car should be but it was not there. I knew that I was ~50-60 steps from my car but I had no idea in which direction. Also I understood that if I make a move to a wrong direction then I might never find my car and might never leave this desert. The opportunities to be eaten by those desert coyotes or to die from the cold were not exactly in my itinerary of my Vegas trip....  It was scared, very scared but there was something in that fear prehistorically beautiful. I can’t explain it – but it was some kind of nature fear that did not derive from any actions of consciousness. I experienced something similar only when I found myself at within very large earthquakes…

I lower myself to my knee and begging to search ground “by touch”. To my pleasure I found some stones there. I collected them and begin to throw them in all direction listening how they lend. After a few minutes and a few dozen of stones I herd a stone hit something that was not belong the desert - it was my car. I walk there is here it was…

I prayed the engine start and it did. I turn it off then, looked up and once again heard the sound of the Original Silence. I knew that it was the best sound at the CES 2005 and I'll never experience anything similar again. I U-turned my car and in 5-10 minutes I found something resembling a road. It was my way back, the road to the sounds of the man-made ceramic tweeters and titanium woofers…. The next day was a next day at the CES…

The Cat

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