Albert Moore Garden painting

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Theirs had been a high-risk conjoining from the start, he reflected: first, Gibreel's dramatic abandonment of across the earth, and now, Allie's uncompromising determination to _see it through_, to defeat in him this mad, angelic divinity and restore the humanity she loved. No compromises for them; they were going for broke. Whereas he, Saladin, had declared himself content to live under the same roof as his wife and her lover boy. Which was the better way? Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.
In the morning Gibreel ordered an ascent of the local "Top". But Allie declined, although it was plain to Chamcha that her return to the countryside had caused her to glow with joy. "Bloody flatfoot mame," Gibreel cursed her lovingly. "Come on, Salad. Us damn city slickers can show the Everest conqueror how to climb. What a bloody upside-down life, yaar. We go