The Ordeal

I'm going back to Neverwhere for this one scene near the end of the book. It's "The ordeal" that the main character Richard has to go through to get the key. When he steps into the room or that's the London below's Black-Friar station. He sees pictures and drawings of thousands of people that went through the ordeal and no one has succeeded. The ordeal starts and so does the ridiculous confusion. Richard enters this trance where his own mind drives him crazy. All the signs in the station say to end his life, people that walk by say he is pitiful and should just end it and in all this his sanity withers away like a dead rose. His remaining sanity talks to him and tells him he needs to listen. Richard wakes up from being blacked out. He is lying in his own vomit and has a ragged beard, his eyes are solid red bloodshot. He crawls to the tracks while being battered trampled kicked and stomped on. He stands up and is about to jump but then he listens. He steps onto the train filled with body's that had all killed themselves. The past people who had tried to pass the ordeal. Richard takes the train back to new world he had passed, even so he doesn't even know he is Richard anymore. Dang this chapter was like any other chapter i have ever read.