He was not a drop's blood to me, though him and my wife were far-out friends.

He fixed it, then left.

In a far more dramatic and meaningful dream sequence (the didactic tone of the first dream sequence has been earlier commented upon), he sees again, now strangely indifferent if not actively hostile, the many lovely girls who have departed from the world, and he reponders their fate and the fate of those girls still alive in the light of the verses and emblems which he had found merely puzzling on his first visit to the region.

The sand is usually very well sorted in barchans, for it is constantly re-worked as the dune ‘marches’. The marching also causes cross-bedding inside the barchan, with a dip parallel to the sand-fall face.