trying to keep rational...

- unfortunate native born under latitude 30° - gargantuesque inferiority complex on most native individuals - information is normally witheld, mixed up purposively when not hidden altogether, for no apparent reason - no such things ever as a "kept word", "mutual trust", "reliability" and so on... - intestine conflicts over-reign in the souk - any foreigner, around here, is the victim of conjectures and common places... foreigner feels like pot of honey attacked by swarm of dirty flies - unfortunate native spends very little or no time at all reading, studying, cultivating forms of "entertainment for the mind" therefore interchanges with other humans are very basic - native's favourite past time: side-street cafes, consuming sugary liquids ("kes té"), trying to deceit unaware "innocent" tourists into visiting most uninteresting spot in the Sahara desert - main subject of conversation, of course: flus, flus, flus... but i am having lots of fun all the same...