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A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
by Paul Bowles ISBN: 0-87286-002-7 Trade paperback, 90pp $8.95 |
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This book spans four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, Salam, one of the men in these stories, uses suggestions supplied by smoking "kif" to rid himself of a possible enemy. He of the Assembly gets caught up in the mesh of his own kif-dream and begins to act out his delusions in reality. Idir acheives victory over Lahcen: the classical story of the kif-smoker's ability to outwit the drinker. And a soldier called Driss, with aid of kif, proves the existence of magic to his enlightened superior officer. For all of them the kif-pipe is the means to attaining a state of communication not only with others, but above all with themselves.
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