english: These had had their entire exteriors stripped away, and all that was left was the old core, and in the middle of the Sahara, I felt like I was seeing the earth with its living skin stripped away.
non_english: і лишилася лише серцевина. І мені здалося, що посеред Сахари я бачу землю,  позбавлену живої оболонки.