This weekend, however, Villas-Boas looked a solitary figure as he crouched near the pitch while clad in the dark trenchcoat he reserves for storm-threatened days like this one.

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It was a brutally long float that started in the bright sunshine of the early morning and ended in the pitch-black dark at 10 PM.

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As it did at the off-season haunted house it mounted five months ago, this group demonstrates that it knows the power of just making you sit in a chair in the pitch dark.

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Riding the dark ocean in the pitch of night before all hell breaks loose, sending up a cloud of heavy black rain and fire, throwing heavy equipment into the icy water, casting men to their deaths at the bottom of the sea.

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Are there any other friends, clergy, neighbors or other family who can join in with you in making your pitch that it is just plain unfair for you to be left in the dark?

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Take Andreas Heinecke of Germany who globally shifts the paradigm and power dynamics between blind and sighted people all accomplished in a pitch dark environment.

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"It was pitch dark, gale blowing, the spray from the waves was like a handful of shingle in your face, " he said.

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