Thomas Kinkade Boston painting

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Tenth highest peak in the world," Chamcha heard him mutter, "is Xixabangma Feng, eight oh one three metres. Annapurna ninth, eighty seventy-eight." Or he would begin at the other end: "One, Chomolungma, eight eight four eight. Two, K2, eighty-six eleven. Kanchenjunga, eighty-five ninety-eight, Makalu, Dhaulagiri, Manaslu. Nanga Parbat, metres eight thousand one hundred and twenty-six."
"You count eight thousand metre peaks to fall asleep?" Chamcha asked him. Bigger than sheep, but not so numerous.
Gibreel Farishta glared at him; then bowed his head; came to a decision. "Not to sleep, my friend. To stay awake."
That was when Saladin Chamcha found out why Gibreel Farishta had begun to fear sleep. Everybody needs somebody to talk to and Gibreel had spoken to nobody about what had happened after he ate the unclean pigs. The dreams