He's optimistically pessimistic

It's been four months since the Sun disappeared blink of an eye and it was gone, the source of life the omnipotent shine - gone and eight minutes later the greatest cataclysm mankind has ever...
"We left as the sun reddened and dropped and we directed ourselves to the desert. We had been told by the villagers that we were close to Ethiopia, that all that was left was to cross the...