Exchange His Steed For A Desert Camel

[Fantasy]

Alice struggled with growing taller then growing

smaller again, then she went looking for Sir Knight

who had problems as he had refused to wear a hat

so when Icarus passed driving his Father's phaeton

He got burnt and today he needed to fix the result of

too much exposure to sun; this emboldened Alice to

put back the towel on her head as she walked down-

town to keep the sun out of her face & eyes & she said

I wish dear Sir Knight had done the same, though I

cannot visualize a valiant Knight with a towel on his

head - he would have to dress like a Mullah to stay

safe & exchange his steed for a desert camel - that

Would be doing calculus to pass the time in the desert:

this is what Alice had read in Terry Pratchett, it was one

of her pet subjects to imagine how camels ruminated

while doing sums with endless zeros in a row - and

Then Sir Knight would have to compose his Odes in the

shade of a Bedouin camp and send them to HRH in far-

off South Africa and he would arrange for her to come

sing to the Arab tribes in the desert and the rest of the

The story I shall have to design in much more detail in

order to conceive of Amira becoming a singing desert

princess, how interesting when the camels softly sing

along - Alice was shaking her head, it seemed too far-

Fetched to imagine camels being musical also, their

already being good at Arithmetic was a great leap of

the imagination, adding a concert held by camels in

the desert took some serious concentration…