Have you heard of the Camel of Destruction? No? It’s a figure from legend, a kind of Apocalyptic Beast. At the beginning of the world, or soon thereafter, it ran amok…
-The Camel of Destruction: A Mamur Zapt Mystery, Michael Pearce
The Camel of Destruction is an Arabic metaphor similar to a “loose cannon”.
-Doc Peterson
KhairAllah might have called the first camel he gave me to ride Jamal al-Tadmeer, Camel of Destruction, not because of it, but because of me. I tried to ride it like a quarter horse, spurring and neck reining forward and aft of the herd in homage to Rowdy Yates. Better if I’d ridden like Wishbone and Mushy in their kitchen wagon, slow and steady. KhairAllah finally put me on a gelding, big and strong and lumbering like an ox. Try getting him into a trot, he might have said to me.