solitude draped all around him a soothing cloak with indefinite edges , he could feel the dimensions of its peculiar geometry expanding , spreading to cover his face even ; down below , they rippled in a traversing empty windhe remembered again that day when he was a young boy amidst the rice fields of bahlia , holding a wooden toy boat of his own creation , whose sail was overwhelmed quickly by that dry , frozen wind which migrated south-to-north : the karakaze .