“He is absolutely alone and trembling on the brink of oblivion – which is at the same time the brink of infinity.” Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death, p. 91. Pacific Oblivion was to have been our first full-length release as JUNGLE, following our debut EP that came out before we had played our first concert – an unpublicized evening as the soundtrack to a barbecue at the Triage Shelter, an emergency housing project on Powell Street in Vancouver, during the summer of 1997. Days later, we made our 'public' debut at Celebrities, the popular gay nightclub on Davie Street that during the 1960s, under the name Retinal Circus