Catherine (played by Carrol Baker, a mysterious blonde whose car crashes into an oil pumping station staffed by five engineers in the Sahara Desert)- Could you get me a drink? What kind of place is this anyway? Are you the right person to ask for a drink? Peter, the station’s Chief Engineer and the first to sleep with her- I am the right person.
-Station Six Sahara (1963), partially filmed in the Libyan Desert
This most unlikely plot, which could just as easily have been lifted from a sci-fi movie about a Baby Doll-like alien beaming herself aboard a space ship full of sex-starved astronauts, plays as a cross between Tennessee Williams and Paul Bowles, but this bit of dialogue reminds me of that first day on the Darb when KhairAllah made lemonade for the Khawajas from goatskin-tainted water, half-rotted limūn, and insufficient sugar. Ishrab, Drink, he said. And we did, Sharibnā.
