“I suppose we might as well go on to Egypt. It doesn’t make any difference.” “It’s certainly not a matter of life or death”…
-Death on the Nile
Except for the camels, for whom it was very much about death, which they met in Old Cairo’s slaughter house after being force marched through the streets, all gaily marked in red paint with their wholesale butcher buyers’ purchase numbers. The drovers were not called for that final duty, much to their relief no doubt, because none would have wanted to see how low their ships of the desert had sunk upon running aground in the city.