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-yes, isolation was  his  life, strange  silences  his  companions, the  perfectly  right  place  to  have  silence  and  strange  deadly  isolation in a  desert,  he  had  now  reached  one,  he  was now  in a  remote  village  in pindi  , he  had  taken  some  four  months  to  reach  there  , an  old  friend  recognized  him and  took him home  , now  together  for  past  two  months  they  were  rebuilding  the  roof  of  the  friend"s  demolished  cottage