"He salutes all parts of the sky and the earth where it is bright. He thinks the color of the amethysts of Aguelmous will be dark if it has rained in the valley of Zerekten. The eye wants to sleep,he says, but the head is no mattress. When it rained for three days and water covered the flatlands outside the ramparts, he slept by the bamboo fence at the Cafe' of the Two Bridges"
"This night is going to be a jewel in my crown"
Paul Bowles, A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
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