For that Guinness-Book reason alone he would merit our serious attention, but it is his own words, intense and realistic, that make this composition so extraordinary. Kummaya is a royal prince, son of an Assyrian king. Once we have read his Netherworld ghost story we will confront, as cushioned stay-at-home detectives, two important questions: who is Kummaya and who the king? Quite a three-pipe problem.
