All men dream: but nor equally, Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses oftheir minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the drea… - T.E. Lawrence

Und was ich in dem Palmenhain an diesem Abend erfuhr, das wuchs in meiner Phantasie und breitete sich aus tausend Ästen und Zweigen, furchtbeladen und schattenspendend gleich jenen, unter denen ich halb zuhörend, halb träumend saß, während die Dämmerung wuchs und die Nacht.

Off the white town hung between the blazing sky and its reflection in the mirage that swept and rolled over the wide lagoon, then the heat of Arabia came to like a drawn sword and smote us speechless.

She was not tall, and looked heavy, but was docile and smooth to ride, turning left or right if the saddle-horn were tapped on the required side. So I rode her without a stick, comfortably reading a book when the march permitted.