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This opening image places a solitary figure against stone, giving the page an immediate feeling of confrontation, exposure, and mythic stillness.

Even in fragment form, the staging matters. A man in a canyon with his back against a huge smooth stone feels cornered and monumental at once, as if the sequence is introducing him through landscape before speech or action can define him.

The book's first real image: a man backed against a huge smooth canyon stone. Two lines only, but they pose the figure before any word from him — cornered geography first, voice later. The rest of the page is letterhead-contaminated and intentionally dropped.