you were in the sand

Sir Henry- What did you think about in the desert? Kathy (played by Anna Lee, aka The British Bombshell)- Sand mostly. Sir Henry- Did you ever think of me? Kathy- Yes, you were in the sand. Sir Henry- I’m glad of that.

-King Solomon’s Mines (1937)

I thought of a lot of people from back home when I was in the sand, but they should not have been glad to be thought of out there. Too much of it, enough to grind the camera gears and grit the millet gruel.