Leonardo da Vinci Leda 1530 painting

Leonardo da Vinci Leda 1530 paintingThomas Kinkade End of a Perfect Day paintingThomas Kinkade Beacon of hope painting
haemorrhage beyond hope of repair, and the brain, too, would start to explode, losing cells by the billion, too many and too fast, resulting in the permanent damage known as High Altitude Deterioration, followed in quick time by death. Blind corpses would remain preserved in the permafrost of those highest slopes. But Allie and Sherpa Pemba went up and came down to tell the talc. Cells from the brain's deposit boxes replaced the anyway." There had been some damage. She had been suffering unaccountable lapses of memory: small, unpredictable things. Once at the fishmonger's she had current-- account casualties. Nor did her eyes blow out. Why had the scientists been wrong? "Prejudice, mostly," Allie said, lying curled around Gibreel beneath parachute silk. "They can't quantify the will, so they leave it out of their calculations. But it's will that gets you up Everest, will and anger, and it can bend any law of nature you care to mention, at least in the short term, gravity not excluded. If you don't push your luck,