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"I shall always remember how, as we left the station, I lifted my left hand to see the time by my wrist-watch, and rode into the desert. Time was of enormous importance on the railway; and so was one's luggage, and there was speed and noise there, among other worries; but in the desert there was only sunrise and sunset to notice, and noon, when all the animals slept and the gazelles were not to be found." (Lord Dunsany, Patches of Sunlight)