A stack of National Geographics, all from the 1980s, go into a box and the box is taped shut.

"A 'hell-mouth'," Long says thoughtfully. "There was a mouth to hell in my world too, although in a different sense, I think, to go by your context. I spent entirely too much time there for my liking all the same.

"It was not in Cleveland, though," he says, with a deadpan straight face.