‘When a man is riding through this desert by night and for some reason -falling asleep or anything else -he gets separated from his companions and wants to rejoin them, he hears spirit voices talking to him as if they were his companions, sometimes even calling him by name. Often these voices lure him away from the path and he never finds it…

I asked Marco Polo how he spent those long years without a family or wife. He said ‘when a woman's husband leaves her to go on a journey of infinite time, as soon as he has left, she takes another husband, and this she is fully entitled to do by local usage. And the men, wherever they go, take wives in the same way’ .Dead man, you know then he laughed and I made my answer in my mind. A lone man travelling oceans, deserts, mountains, seas had answered in such an intelligent…