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Dreaming Kathmandu
In 2008, Glenn Miller, his wife, Graz, and his two adult children, Megan and Andrew, set off for the high plateaus of Kathmandu. Much preparation goes into a trip of this sort, and the author was careful to do so. Of course, one cannot plan for every contingency . . .
On a trip of this sort, the human dynamics quite often threaten to overshadow everything else. Yet the author has let the beauty of the place sink into his core and has given us a concentrated elixer of sheer poetry.
"Outside, somewhere, a street dog is barking, and its barking sets off the yapping of another, and then, farther away, a third joins the chorus. But he does not much care; let the street dogs bark, he thinks, let the cattle lie down and rest, let the fish sleep, for he knows sleep will come; and with first light he will awaken and find himself dreaming in Kathmandu."
Even Miller's use of such archaic words as "clatterynge" and "erumpent" simply add to the music and just seem to belong, somehow.
