"It was very peaceful on the water, the great smooth slippery black rocks gliding by and the soft breeze fanning their faces. Elephantine was reached very quickly and on going ashore Poirot and his loquacious acquaintance made straight for the museum. By this time the latter had produced a card wich he handed to Poirot with a little bow. It bore the inscription: 'Signor Guido Richetti, Archeologo.'"
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
Kickshaw - (noun) a tidbit or delicacy, especially one served as an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre; something showy but without value; trinket; trifle.
* When a stale cold fool is well heated, and hashed by a satirical cook, he may be tossed up into a kickshaw not disagreeable.
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), letter to Mr. Caryll, The Works of Alexander Pope: Volume VIII, 1824
* Love is but a flitting shadow, a lure, a gimcrack, a kickshaw.
Nathanael West, The Dream Life of Balso Snell, 1931
Imaginary Place of the day:
Abdera - (...) A famous incident in the history of Abdera was the renowned horse rebellion, when the city's horses, endowed with a sort of aberrant intellingence, reared up and sacked the city. They killed men and mules, violated women and only surrendered when the hero Hercules came to rescue the citizens of Abdera.
(Anonymous, Physiologus Latinus, 4th cen. BC; Christoph Martin Wieland, Die Abderiten, Munich, 1774; Leopoldo Lugones, "Los Caballos de Abdera," in Las Fuerzas Extrañas, Buenos Aires, 1906)
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