Реклама. ООО «ЛитРес», ИНН: 7719571260.
In 1970, the mummies of a small boy and an old man were housed in the museum atop Mesa Verde. The child had been found in a crevice, down which he had evidently fallen, and he looked so alive that an observer felt he might open his eyes and speak. The old man had been buried at the back of one of the caves, behind the house.
On a return trip, in 1984, I found both bodies gone, and those in attendance at the museum at that time knew nothing of them. However, in the interim, some time in the Seventies, I had seen a newspaper item that mentioned that two mummies had been stolen from the Mesa Verde museum. I hope they were taken by their own kind of people, distant kin though they might be, and put to rest, at long last, with all the proper rituals.
.....
Now he stood at the edge of death. The matters of life and of time were stilled to a peculiar clarity.
Sitting in the worsening wind, he seemed to see down a long valley into the world of his youth. Every stone and leaf and incident of that valley’s length came clear and immediate to his inner eye. When he turned his gaze in the opposite direction, he could see another valley stretching away, but there was a bend in its course. Beyond that, he could see nothing but a dim glow, as if a sun were rising there beyond his sight.
.....