A Million Grains of Sand

Abdelkader

esteemed man of Bou Noura, 153-4

refuses apology from Port, 175-6

plays chess with Tunner in the evenings, 257, 261-2

Abdeslam ben Hadj Chaoui

tea with, 126-9

Adrar

stopover at, 312

Aïn Krorfa

113-44

bus to, 104-13

description of, 119

filthy hotel in, 113-8

flies telling the approach of, 111-3

vs. Bou Noura, 127

alcohol

champagne, 68, 79-83, 84, 87-8, 93,

Cinzano, 224

cognac, 159, 228

offense to Moslems, 84, 141-2

Pernod, 257

scotch, 161-7

Tio Pepe, 53-4

whiskey, 141

Algiers

11-69, 313-8

See also: The Casbah

Amar

finds Kit in the market, 301-2

intimate relations with Kit, 306-8

apologies

not accepted by Abdelkader, 175-6

not accepted with good grace by M. Chaoui, 128-9

Arabs

Abdelkader, 153-4, 175-6, 257, 261-2

Ahmed, 151, 170, 219, 250

in the fourth-class train compartment, 83-5

like Englishmen dressed up for masquerade, 119

Mrs. Lyle's opinion of, 70-1, 89-90

Kit is helped by a young, 181-94

Lieutenant d'Armagnac and, 147-55

M. Chaoui, 126-9

selling tickets at the Transports Généraux, 173-4, 177

silently meditating, 100-2

spits outside Daoud Zozeph's shop, 212

tea with, 29-31, 36-9, 119, 126-9, 135-6

venerable, praying, 100

vs. French, 115-6

assimilation

Kit's lack of, 120, 128-9, 161-7

Port's feelings of, 120

Atallah

host to Kit and Amar, 303-8

Atomic Age

185

Belqassim

See also: older nomad, wives of Belqassim

meets Kit, 268-9

is a friendly carnal presence for Kit, 272-8

dresses Kit as an Arab boy, 277-8

anxiously guides Kit through an immense dwelling, 280-1

marries Kit, 288-90

Belqassim's family house

See also: desert town, wives of Belqassim

Kit held captive disguised as a boy, 280-7

Berbers

as Mrs Lyle's "meat", 60

in the fourth-class train compartment, 83-5

bickering

Eric and Mrs. Lyle, 53-6, 69-76

Port and Kit, 14-21, 54-5, 64-5, 129-30, 165-8,

blind girl, dancing

137-40

blind man

192

Bordeaux

147-8

bordj

104, 109-10, 181-4

Bou Noura

147-178, 249-63

description of, 256-7

vs. Aïn Krorfa, 127

Boussif (Boucif)

89-103

description of, 92

Port and Kit ride bikes through, 98-102

Port rides bike through alone, 103

boys

See: children

bracelets, silver

See also: jewelry

the fathma's jangling, 94

and rings from Belqassim, 282-93

around the slave woman's ankles, 283, 287

two fat women weighed down by massive, 230

burnouses

83-5, 92, 99, 127, 179, 181, 209, 210, 212, 230-1, 233, 240, 245

buses

Port bribes tickets to El Ga'a, 173

to Aïn Krorfa, 104-13

to El Ga'a, 177-87

Cafe d'Eckmul-Noiseux

13, 199, 317

cafes

13-18, 23, 28-31, 92, 119, 305-6, 317-8

Captain Broussard

See also: Lieutenant d'Armagnac

discusses Port's care with Kit, 200-1

refuses Kit milk, 208-9

inquires about Port and Kit's passports, 223-5

gives Port morphine and curses Kit, 228

Caron

195

The Casbah

32-3, 74, 317

See also: Algiers

Central Park

See: New York

chess

Tunner and Abdelkader play in the evenings, 257, 261-2

children

blind girl dancer, 137-40

frog-faced Othman beguiles Kit, 284-6

in the brothel, 136-40

mournful boy singer, 136

naked, fanning a fire, 280

shouting from the bus, 92

throw stones at Port, 24-5

unconsciously clutching at Tunner, 257

waiting for Port's glass to passed forward, 183

clouds

allowing Kit to catch up with time, 282

as a bad sign, 125

doom hanging over Kit's head like a, 43

threatening, 63, 65, 69, 76, 78

cold

103, 105, 140-1, 180, 267, 272

at Port's core of being, 140-1

"cold for days", 158-64

expecting the sky to crack from, 172

offense at Kit's, 128

ride to Sbâ, 195-7

sleep not yet, 300

Consulates

American, 313-4, 317

British, 71

at Dakar, 309

core of being

See also: cold

coldness of Port's, 140-1

penetrating to the, 167

two, one false and one true, 222

cowardice

131, 196

crying

in a dream, 18, 124

in Tunner's arms, 231, 234-5

jumble of screaches and, 288

mechanically, like hiccups or belches, 207

mourning the loss of a great part of a life, 217-8

only a few tears, 307

surrenders to a long fit of, 287

while choking on cake, 289

while frantically trying to disengage from Amar, 302

dancing and singing

a little song that Belqassim often sang, 288

a rhythmical refrain with the feast drums, 245-6

blind girl somnambulistically, 137

in a complex rhythm, 181-2

like a child's weeping, 80

monotonous, whining song and rhythmic dance, 286-7

mournful boy singer, 136

querelous refrain, 296

sudden impulse to sing, 247

Daoud Zozeph

See also: Jews

allows Kit to stay the night at his house, 239-45

gives Kit his baby's rations, 213

talks with Kit in his shop, 211-3

darkness

sky protecting from, 101

death

See also: existence

Kit and Port's beliefs about, 237-8

Kit considers her own, 269-70

of abandoned infant, 148-51

of Port, 236-7

deceit

Othman acts a fool to deceive Kit, 285

desert

See: landscape

desert town

279-308

See also: Belqassim, wives of Belqassim, Amar

Kit held captive in, 280-98

disease

See: illness

dogs

howling, barking, 23, 40, 98, 102, 119, 121, 124, 172, 190, 203, 311

most beautiful in Aïn Krorfa, 136

pink, with pale yellow eyes, 114, 117-8, 134

with pink things in their mouths, 149

dreams

74-75, 124

Belqassim like a character in a, 288

Kit's dislike of hearing about, 17-20, 44

of a train, 17-8

of being impaled, 231-3, 235

of being suspended beween the sky and the sea, 299

of the sky splitting, 233, 312

Port telling of his sickness like a, 216

Port understands the meaning of a, 74-5

shattered and the light of terror would be constant, 307-8

unable to recall, 12

drums

See also: music, dancing and singing

dry, with a sharp reedy rhaita, 137

in the desert city, 280

Kit feeling no part of, 166

of the feast, beating near the oasis, 240, 245-6

played by the wives of Belqassim, 296

rhythm forming a circle from which Kit cannot escape, 289-90

staccato sound of a hand drum, 29

dust

25, 104, 160, 176, 187, 206-8

horror connected with, 195

seeming less heavy when not seen, 104

El Ga'a

186-94

Kit and Port arrive in, 186

legendary, 185

"one of the great Saharan cities", 164

Port wanting to know nothing about, 169

epidemic, meningitis

191-2

Eric Lyle

See: Lyle, Eric and Mrs.

escape

drum forming a circle from which Kit could not, 289

feeling there is no, 183

frantically trying to disengage from Amar to, 301-2

from Belqassim, 294-8

from familiar things, 109

from the Casbah, 40-2

from the other side, 302-6

from the sickroom, 210

Kit conquers her desire to, 214

Port wishing to, 166-9

to El Ga'a, 171-87

to Daoud Zozeph's shop, 239-40

to Sbâ, 194-7

toward the center of the desert, 198

European influence

See: Western culture

exile

See also: solitude, isolation

from the world, 221-3

existence

See also: death, time

dream of living life the same way, 17

fear of getting all the way into, 101

finiteness of, 238

in which timeless would surround Kit, 237

Kit pushing against her own, 126

Kit's rediscovery of the joy of, 247-8

like a cigarette, 165-6

like a walk through the countryside, 132

like climbing a cliff, 307

looming pain of, 302

losing dimensions, 222

of exile from the world, 222

other people as rulers of, 44-5

passport as proof of, 198

passport to, 95

Port's validated by Kit watching him, 24, 40

strange langour in the center of, 300

without regret or guilt, 231

falcons

Tunner tries to buy, 109-10

fear

See also: omens

akin to a child's, 141

for no reason, 216-7

Kit looks at Port with tenderness and, 218

mistake in fearing omens, 212

Mrs. Lyle motivated by, 91

of being aware of endless seconds, 86

of being forced to look at what she had buried, 304-6

of God, 212

of emotional ties, 105

of everything Port says, 101

of her new sentiment of revulsion, 215

of living, 101

of solitude, 100

of suspended disaster, 43-5

of the horror behind the sky, 312

of the pain, 311

of the ultimate taboo, 214

overwhelming familiar feeling of, 285-6

persuading, 131

that Port may really be ill, 180, 183, 195

that Tunner will get Kit, 34

vaguely terrified, 281

women's voices remind Kit of, 293

fever

See: illness

Fiancée for Rent (movie)

19-20

Fifth Battalion of Sharpshooters

27

filth

in Aïn Krorfa hotel, 113-6

Tunner's intolerance of, 112

flee

See: escape

flies

See: insects

fondouk

188-9, 192-4

food

See also: soup

brought by ancient Negro slave woman, 283-6

delicious, 271

inedible, 116, 133, 193-4, 243, 291

intact pastries in a dream, 232

jar of buttermilk, 300

refusal to eat, 286

strange and sour beverage, 292-3

francs

contraband in the Soudan, 305

Daoud Zozeph thinks Kit want to borrow, 241

Eric asks Port for loan, 106-7

Eric comes to repay Port, 121-124

for the blind girl Mohammed asks 1000, 138

Marhnia tries to steal Port's wallet, 40

not recognized by market woman, 300-1

Port bribes an old woman to make tea for 200, 142-4

Port bribes the the Transport Généraux Arab with, 173-4

French

Mrs. Lyle's opinion of, 55, 70

vs. Arabs, 115-6

gardens

211, 230, 240

in a cafe, 29

of M. Chaoui, 127-8

with a pool in which Kit bathes, 246-8

girls

See: children, whores

Grand Hotel

113-126

guilt

about Tunner, 93, 101-2, 125, 177-8, 231

existence without, 231

over Port's burial, 253-4

hands

Kit avoid Port's searching, 216

Kit rubs Port's cold, 195-6

Port holds Kit's, 183

Port holds Kit's desperately, 216-7

Port's lies in camel dung, 189, 192

happiness

at her new existence, 270-4

existence elsewhere, 57

habit of hanging back from, 246

of Port vs. Kit in Africa, 119-20

on good days, 44

hashish

29, 119, 139

Helena Rubinstein

195

See also: make-up

horror

See: fear

Hôtel du Ksar

See also: meningitis

Kit denied entry, 189-92

hotels

Grand Hotel (Aïn Krorfa), 113-26

Hôtel du Ksar (El Ga'a), 189-91

Majestic Hotel (Algiers), 316-7

identity

Captain Broussard asks for Port and Kit's papers to verify their, 224

Kit awakens with no feeling of, 300

loss of passport as loss of, 160

Port fancies his new lack of, 169

illness

blindness, young girl affected by, 137, 139

chill, Port's, 164, 179-89

Eric Lyle's infection, 90

Kit feigns, 177-8

leprosy, aged woman with, 279

leprosy, lion faced man with, 85-6

malaria, Mrs. Lyle's, 260

man in the ruin with, 132

meningitis, epidemic in El Ga'a, 191-2, 195-6

nausea, 184, 214

peritonitis, Kit's fear of, 201-2

reduces man to a cloaca, 214

scrofula, children with, 257

sores, babies with, 114

typhoid, Port sick with, 200-236

insects

bedbugsin the Grand Hotel, 123

buzzing of flies, 303

centipede, cut into parts, each able to walk on it's own, 227

children covered in an outer layer of flies, 257

cockroach speared by a knife, 134

flies crawling over faces, 11, 111-114, 132, 303

flies make love on Port's lip, 240

flies telling the approach of Ain Krorfa, 111-4

flies with claws, 164

ground covered in crunching, 23-4

hen as protection against scorpions, 244

huge red ants rushing along, 256

Kit cocooning her mind like an, 267

locusts calling an unceasing scream, 74

louse on Kit's neck, 84

man eating red locusts, 84

mosquitoes, 57

scorpion, Yamina killed by, 150

weevils in soup, 116

intimate relations

between Eric and Mrs. Lyle, 143, 163

between Kit and Amar, 306-8

between Kit and Belqassim, 272-8,

between Kit and the older nomad, 273-5

between Kit and Tunner, 87-88, 93

between Port and Mahrnia, 35-40

between Tunner and a french girl, 48

imaginary, between Port and the young blind girl, 140

isolation

See also: solitude, exile

from humanity, 95, 166

from sentiment, 212

Port's awful feeling of, 215-8

jewelry

jangling bracelets of the fathma, 94

Kit buys her freedom with makeup and, 295-8

Kit tries to return to the wives, 289-90

rings and bracelets from Belqassim, 282-93

silver bangles around the slave woman's ankles, 283, 287

taken from the wives and given to Kit, 288

two fat women weighed down by massive, 230

Jews

French as, 55

Kit realizes Daoud Zozeph is a, 211

Mrs. Lyle's opinion of, 72-73

Spain as full of, 72-3

Kit (Katherine Moresby)

See also: Port

and Port

irritated with Port for telling his dream, 17-20

waiting for Port's return to her, 45-6

aim in life opposed to Port's, 100

fears that Port may really be ill, 180

tends to Port, 195-7, 200-10, 213-8

miserable at hearing Port talk, 216-7

mourns the loss of a great part of a life, 217-8

discovers Port is dead, 236

and Tunner

train to Boussif alone with Tunner, 77-88

intimate relations with Tunner, 93

guilt over Tunner, 93, 101-2, 125, 177-8, 231

locked out of the Poste Militaire with Tunner, 233-5

and Belqassim

caught between the older and younger nomad, 271-5

accepts her helplessness, 272

attacked by the slave woman and Belqassim's wives, 286-8

married to Belqassim, 288-90

belief in omens, 43-5

visits the fourth-class train compartment, 83-7

meets man with diseased face, 85-6

offends M. Chaoui, 128

builds a fortress of western possessions, 161-2

view of life, 165-7

befriends a young Arab, 181-94

tries to find lodging in El Ga'a, 187-94

in crisis, 192-3

fear of meningitis contamination, 195-6

meets Daoud Zozeph, 211-3

tells Captain Broussard of Port's stolen passport, 224-5

flees from the Poste Militaire and hides at Zozeph's, 239-45

feels life is suddently there and she is in it, 245-8

Kit turns away from all that had gone before, 267

acting without consciousness, 268, 273, 276

joins a caravan, 268-78

dressed as an Arab boy locked in a small room by Belqassim, 277-88

frozen in familiar terror, 285-6

escapes from Belqassim's house, 294-8

mistaken for a native, 302

tries to break away and hide but betrays herself to the other side, 302-8

fears being made to look at what she had buried, 304-8

intimate relations with Amar, 306-8

refuses to open her eyes, fearing pain, 309-12

faced with the violent blue sky, afraid of the maw behind, 312

becomes docile, and soils herself, 312

escorted by Miss Ferry to the Majestic Hotel, 313-8

L'Echo d'Alger (newspaper)

wrapped around the dead infant, 149-50

landscape

ashen, 275-6

becoming impure by passing into consciousness, 168

changing from rock to sand, 185

entering Aïn Krorfa, 112

lacking in sentiment, 212

leaving Algiers, 74-5

negation of movement, suspension of continuity in the night, 226

of Boussif, 92, 98-9

of Aïn Krorfa, 119

of M. Chaoui's garden, 127

of Sbâ, 203

of the desert at it's best in the half-light of dawn or dusk, 268

of the desert city, 282-3

senseless, 160-1

lepers

See: illness

Lieutenant d'Armagnac

See also: Captain Broussard

investigates the strangled infant, 148-51

becomes unpopular with the natives, 150-2

learns of the american who lost his passport, 152-5

opinion of Americans, 154

meets Port, 156-60

tells Port his passport has been recovered, 170-1

talks with Tunner, 219-221, 250-6

life

See: existence

love

Kit's for Amar, 307

Kit's for Port, 45-6, 99-100, 234-5

Port feels he has lost, 140

Port shut away from, 100

Port's for Kit, 24, 105-6, 130-2, 215-8

Tunner obsessed with Kit out of vanity and pity but not, 254

lute

See: oud

Lyle, Eric and Mrs.

Mrs. Lyle's opinion of French, 55, 70

Eric meets Port, 58-61

Eric compares his relationship to his mother with marriage, 60

drive Port to Boussif, 69-76

Mrs. Lyle's opinion of Arabs, 70-1, 89-90

Mrs. Lyle's opinion of Jews, 72-3

Mrs. Lyle's reveals Eric's infection, 90

in Ain Krorfa, 116-124

Eric comes to repay Port, 121-4

arrive in Bou Noura, 258

Tunner catches Eric going through his things, 262-3

M. Chaoui

See: Abdeslam ben Hadj Chaoui

Majestic Hotel

316-7

make-up

Kit applies, 46, 86, 176, 202, 291

Kit applies in the fourth-class train compartment, 84

Kit applies with Belqassim's wives, 297-8

laying between the hostile air and Kit's body, 195

Mali

See: Soudan

Marhnia

35-40

See also: Smail

Mark Cross

195

See also: make-up

mazes

streets like, 22-8, 188-9, 232, 280

Mecheria

283

meningitis

191-2, 195-6

See also: illness

Messad

blackmarket for passports, 158-60

Tunner and the Lyles go to Messad, 123-4

milk

Captain Broussard denies Kit, 208-9

Daoud Zozeph gives Kit his baby's rations, 213

Milky Way

See also: stars

like a rift across the sky, 25

Miss Ferry

sent to pick up Kit and deliver her to the plane home, 313-9

Mohammed

114, 134

takes Port to brothel, 135-44

tells Port about Eric and Mrs. Lyle's relationship, 143

money

See: francs

Moresby, Port and Kit

See: Port, Kit

moon

new moon in the mirror, 168

on the dunes, above Kit and Tunner, 233-5

shining like a cold white sun, 230

violent light from, 245

Mrs. Lyle

See: Lyle, Eric and Mrs.

muezzins

102, 126, 211

music

279-80, 296

See also: radios, dancing and singing, oud, drums

at Kit and Belqassim's marriage, 288-90

at the bordj, 181-2

at the brothel in Ain Krorfa, 136-7

cockcrow like a melody, 25

faint sound of an accordian, 206

flutes by the fire, 273-4

one long-drawn-out bugle note, 102

solitary man playing a flute, 119

New York

14, 20, 108, 127, 254-5, 261

See also: Western culture

old Negro slave woman

283-7

See also: Belqassim

attempts to poison Kit, 292-4

older nomad

See also: Belqassim

argues with Belqassim, 275

bristling and alien animal, 273

stops Belqassim from embracing Kit, 271-2

omens

125-6, 212

See also: fear, Kit

champagne as a good, 79-81

Kit cringing before her, 125-6

Kit talks with Daoud about, 212

Kit would now be, 268

Kit's belief in, 43-5

Tunner's magic as good, 66

wind as a bad, 207

Oran

309

other worlds

See also: fear

drawn up from a well of absolute night, 300

fourth-class train compartment as a, 84-5

Kit as a storm-lashed, tropical, 217

Port far away and alone in, 216

Port imagines, 166-8

Port wakes from, 11, 200, 210, 215-6, 221-3, 227-8

the room as, 227-8

shaped like a cube, 180

shifting dimensions in, 221-3

tears as currency in, 166

friendly carnal presence in an unrecognizable, 272

Othman

See also: Belqassim

sent to spy on Kit, 284-85

oud (lute)

29-31, 127-9

See also: music

palms

245-6

at the oasis, 270

male vs. female, 127

spearlike shadows from, 230

passports

as identity, 160, 198

Captain Broussard inquires about Port and Kit's, 223-5

Abdelkader accused of stealing, 154-8

Port conceals recovery from Kit, 175

Port fancies lack of, 169

blackmarket for in Messad, 158-60

realization that Eric Port stole Port's, 159-63

recovered by Tunner, 170-1

to existence, 95

Tunner unaware of Eric Lyle's theft, 258

pity

at being alone, abandoned, lost, hopeless, cold, 140

Tunner's overtures toward Kit made out of, 254

poison

given to Kit, 292-4

given to Lieutenant d'Armagnac, 151-2

Port (Porter Moresby)

See also: Kit

feels his center is a core of sadness, 11

encounter with Marhnia the dancer, 35-40

meets Eric and Mrs. Lyle, 53-61

rides with the Lyles to Boussif, 69-76

aim in life opposed to Kit's, 100

faith in Kit's loyalty, 34, 106

lends money to Eric Lyle, 107

feeling of leaving the familiar, 109

goes with Mohammed to brothel, 135-44

asks Mohammed to arrange for the blind girl, 138-40

feels he has lost love, 140

demands tea from an old woman, 142-4

learns of Eric and Mrs. Lyle's intimate relations, 143

reports that Abdelkader stole his passport, 156-60

"cold for days", 158-64

view of life, 165-8

passport recovered by Tunner, 170-1

desperate to escape to El Ga'a with Kit, 171-8

becomes very ill, 178-89

on a straight course to the desert's center, 198

very ill with typhoid, 200-18, 221-3, 227-8, 231-3, 235

wakes, desperate to talk to Kit, 215-8

awful feeling of aloneness, 216

fights the room, 227-8

dreams of being impaled, 231-3

pierces the fine fabric of the sky in a dream, 235

possessions

See: Western culture

radios

See also: music

playing "I am Weeping Upon Your Grave", 121

playing Radio Oran in the dining room, Egyptian music in the kitchen, 133

sending forth hysterical screams, 16

Red Mosque of Djenné

263

relations

See also: love

affected by an extra, mysterious element, 130-1

between Kit and Belqassim on caravan, 271-80

Kit bored by Tunner, 46

Kit hoping for Port to claim her, 45

Kit tells Tunner that she loves Port, 234-5

Kit's reliance on Port, 83

Port decides to abandon pursuit of Kit, 130-3

Port desires to strengthen his and Kit's, 105-6

Port realizes he lives for Kit, 217

Port's existence validated by Kit watching him, 24, 40

responsibility

Kit surrenders to Tunner, 231

rocks

See: landscape

Rue de la Mer Rouge

28

sadness

always in Aïn Krorfa, 127

at the core of consciousness, 11

dream of infinite, 124

never in Aïn Krorfa, 128

of sunset, 99

Sahara

"a small place", 317

as a powerful, half-conscious entity, 251

El Ga'a as one the great cities, 164

Mme. d'Armagnac wanting to spend her life in, 148

not as dirty as people say, 172

pleasurable agitaion at travelling deeper into, 109

tea in the, 37-9

withstanding the loss of unique culture, 16

Sba

200-48

description of, 203

truck to, 193-7

sheep's head, severed

85

Sidi-bel-Abbès

200

silence

as terror for Kit, 100

leave-taking in, 240

locus of hostile forces, 227

of the Sahara, 202, 233, 251

of the street, 298

of the ultimate degree, 180

Port's love of, 100

sounds no more than variations on, 300

surrounding Kit in the locked room, 281

while Kit bathes in the oasis, 247

singing

See: dancing and singing

sky

black and frowning, 69

black star piercing the fine fabric of, 235

cracks from nocturnal cold, 172

drawn up from a well of absolute night, 300

intense, too blue, 160

like a metal dome grown white with heat, 275

like the head, always turning around and around, 307

limpid, burning, 282

meets earth with a pulsating haze, 203

Port feels stronger than, 168

protected by the thin, 222-3

protection from darkness, 101

shifting colors playing on, 110

violent blue, 312

white, 42

Smail

26-39

See also: Marhnia

sobbing

See: crying

solitude

See also: isolation, exile

Port's love of, 100, 131

Soudan (Sudan)

171, 283, 299-312

Soudanese man

talks with Kit, 184-5

helps Kit find lodging in El Ga'a, 187-94

soup

See also: food

bits of rabbit fur in, 133

weevils in, 116

Zina brings for Port, 205, 214

Spanish

Mrs. Lyle's opinion of, 72-3

stars

165, 197, 206, 242

bright in the clear sky, 104

hard, flaring, 103

in the square of sky framed by the window, 165

point of darkness in the night sky's clarity, 235

turning sideways, 226

streetcar

crowded with people, 17, 317-8

streets

like mazes, 22-8, 188-9, 232, 280

sun

always in Aïn Krorfa, 127

as the whole sky, 275

burning, on Port and Kit's arrival in Africa, 14, 98-9

dazzling, with terrible brightness, 303

fixing Kit like a serpent's eye, 282

horror connected with, 195

Kit's fears that it will shrivel her thoughts, 302

like a reading glass, 190-1

making Port feel colder, 159

reflected red across the salt sebkha, 42

superstitions

23, 131, 286-7

See also: omens

tea

gives Kit strength, 208

in a Boussif cafe, 92

in the Sahara, 37-9

men in the streets of Ain Krorfa making, 119

Mrs. Lyle's insistence on, 75-6, 117-8, 260-1

Port demands, 142-4

with M. Chaoui, 126-9

with cakes at the marriage, 290

with Marhnia, 36-9

with Mohammed at the brothel, 135-6

with Smail, 29-31, 36-9

telegram

Kit wants to send to end the game, 294-5

tries frantically to send, 304

terror

See: fear

Tessalit

305, 312

time

always continuing, 208

expressed as wind, 215

fear of, 86

feeling that it is being wasted, 36-7 46

going nowhere, 269

meaningless in Kit's new existence, 237-8

night landscape suggesting a suspension of, 226

non-existent, 133, 177

one cloudy day would allow Kit to catch up with, 282

playing tricks, 247-8

suspended in a vacuum, 86

Touaregs

See: Berbers

tourist

vs. traveler, 13-4, 108

trains

Kit and Tunner take to Boussif alone, 77-88

traveler

vs. tourist, 13-14, 108

trees

See also: palms

cypress, 189

fig, 124

twisted, hung with rags, 131

tamarisk, Kit emerges from under, 267-8

weeping tamarisk, Kit hides under, 248

trucks

to Sba, 193-7

Tunner arrives in Sba by, 229-30

Tunner

Kit's opinion of, 46

pursuit of Kit, 47-9, 65-8, 77-83, 87-8

friendship with Port and Kit, 67-8

train to Boussif alone with Kit, 77-88

tries to buy falcons, 109-10

horrified by the filth of the Grand Hotel, 113-4

goes with the Lyles to Messad, 123-24

learns the Port and Kit are in Sbâ, 219-21

arrives in Sbâ, 230

locked out of the poste militaire with Kit, 233-5

guilt over Port's burial, 252-4

waits in Sba for Kit's return, 251-63

plays chess with Abdelkader, 257, 261-2

is disgusted by Eric Lyle, 259-60

catches Eric going through his things, 262-3

waiting at the Majestic for Kit, 316-7

The War

14-16, 29-30, 95, 108

Western culture

See also: assimilation

groceries from, 52

no sign of influence from, 187

possessions as protection, 161-2, 195

post-war politics, 14-16, 29-30, 95, 108

squalid invocations of, 57-8

whores

at the brothel in Aïn Krorfa, 135-9

Captain Broussard believes Kit is a, 224-5

dressed in white, 135

Kit mistaken for a, 302-3

Lieutenant offers to Tunner, 255-6

Mahrnia, 30-40

workaday, 136

wind(s)

as a bad omen, 206-8

blowing from one part of the earth to another, 131

blowing over the vast sebka, 25

celebrates Kit's new depth of solitude, 218

marking the passage of time, 215

no longer blowing, 223

rising, bringing dust, 25, 176, 306

senseless monologue, 217

splitting of the sky and the advance with the speed of a million, 233

swaying the lofty palm tops, 127

words blowing into Port's head like, 221

wives of Belqassim

See also: Belqassim, Othman

send Othman to to spy on Kit, 284-5

tear Kit's diguise from her revealing her identity, 287

punished at Kit and Belqassim's marriage, 288-90

attempt to dispose of Kit, 287-94

Yamina ben Rhaissa

149-51

See also: Lieutenant d'Armagnac

Zina

201, 205, 208

See also: Captain Broussard