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Say what you will, but the nature of a location takes on an important role in the affairs of humans. In an old house, an empty theatre, a cemetery, or where there was past turmoil, a tangible energy haunts and can affix itself to a visitor in today's.... With yet-unhealed wounds from recent fight in southeast Asia, John Moore undertook an unexpected walking tour in the tough Scottish Highlands. Which has a season of freezing rainstorms getting close to, he took shelter in a remote monastery. This chance face would change his future, his values about blind chance, and the surprising courses where the best in human being characteristics can smuggle its way into the life of any stranger. He didn't anticipate the brotherhood's easy hospitality or the amazing variety of personalities and guarded backgrounds that soon emerged in their silent community. Afterward, the opportunity dialog overheard in a village pub steered him to Canada, where he took a job as a rock and roll drill operator in a large, industrial silver mine. He came across dangers among the lost men for the reason that dangerous other world, where secretive men sought long lasting anonymity in the perils of work deep underground. A brutal kind of monasticism challenged both his stamina and his sense of mankind. With sensitivity and delightfully good humor, Moore explores the amazing lessons learned in these strangely rich fraternities of neglected men: a brotherhood housed in crumbling middle ages masonry and one shared in the unforgiving depths of the silver mine.
