"The sands of Wahiba are empty and quiet. There is no sound. Nothing bigger than a lizard can live in the great sea of soft, red-gold sand; nothing bigger than marram grass can grow there. You hear nothing but the blood in your ears, and the hot dry air going in and out of your mouth."
The Man from Nowhere - Bernard Smith
"The right man is the one who seizes the moment." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Word of the day:
Exiguous - scanty; meager; small; slender.
* His exiguous nautical pension is hardly enough to pay for the one cockroach infested room which he inhabits in the slum area behind Tatwig Street...
Lawrence Durrel, Justine, 1957
* There is an exiguous anthropological plot, concerning some papers improperly filched from a dying missionary, and an even more exiguous adulterous plot.
A.S. Byatt, "Barbara Pym", Passions of the Mind, 1991.
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