Every common domestic vocabulary word I must learn. Chair. Bed. Glass. I already know things like Balance of Payments. Defense Budget. Letter of Credit.
-Letter Home, August 1978
If only that year I had learned the words for Castrated Camel, Sore Hump, and Bone Tired, I would have had more to say five years later to KhairAllah on the Darb al-’Arba’een.
