Death itself didn’t seem quite so terrifying in a landscape of rock and redwood and unbroken ocean — and in a silence that seemed no less changeless.

It’s a contrast to his life in L.A.; he doesn’t see people in the desert, and, unlike a city, it’s mostly changeless.

But in many regards, the service industry is changeless.

“Perhaps it is partly that she has always been there, a changeless human reference point in British life,” he said.

As a substance it lay outside any given moment: Having already changed and thereby become changeless, it was no longer subject to time.