A third of the world is desert, locked in the human brain.
-A Dictionary of Arabic and Islamic Proverbs, Paul Lunde
Riding the Darb for forty days can make one think that all the world was desert, less that day or two when riding in the sweet green sleeve beside the Nile and wondering, as the Quran’s 47th Sura put it, if it was not a river of paradise, running with “wine delicious to the drinkers.“