he had seen the earth from this huge height ( and it had somehow been more dizzying and distorting than the vision of growth which had come upon him shortly before the end of his time with the man in black , because what he had seen through the door had been no vision ) , and what little remained of his attention had registered the fact that the land he was seeing was neither desert nor sea but some green place of incredible lushness with interstices of water that made him think it was a swamp , butd what little remained of your attention , the voice of cort mimicked savagely .