I have made most of my expeditions in an arm chair. I am an explorer in slippers.
-In Quest of Lost Worlds: Adventures in North Africa, 1937, Byron Khun de Prorok
This was said by a sedentary man who declined an invitation to cross the Sahara. If fifty years later he had joined Hajj Bashir’s Dabouka, as did the equally sedentary I, he would have met KhairAllah wearing leather slippers, a Kabbāshī’s usual footwear, who said to me, When you get home, then you may sit in a chair.