'Lot' is correct in my opinion ... if you put yourself into the way he thinks and/or look up the meaning of the word (i.e., a parcel). That's what I love about Tim. A magnificent brain.
he says "nice sort of quiet". they're the words he wrote- "just quiet, like silence but not really silent. Just that nice sort of quiet... like the sound of a page being turned in a book. Or a pause in a walk in the woods. Quiet, like silence but not really silent. Just that still sort of quiet, like the sound when you lie upside down in your bed, just the sound of your heart in your head".