He'd rather lie on a couch than walk to egypt

Lawrence at that time…had no love for a camel, preferring to walk.

-A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence, A Psycho-Biography by John Mack, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry

To get him on the couch, you’d need a big one, and a big glass of water near that big box of tissues, for camels can weigh more than half a ton and drink up to 200 liters, but they are not known to cry even when their drovers sing love songs to them and patch their foot pads and salve their skin sores, and feed them dry acacia thorns and withold water on their Forty Day march to slaughter.