Paul Bonnard picks up wood several times for the fire in the middle of the desert. Huh, where'd he get the wood?
Put on your big girl panties and deal with it!
It's not wood. He uses camel chips (dried camel feces) at Joe January's suggestion. They camp around oases where other traveling groups (presumably by camel) have stopped.
shareWith Sophia Loren around, not many men would have trouble getting wood.
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"With Sophia Loren around, not many men would have trouble getting wood".
This one is realy edgy, whit a "hairfine blanace", (as we say in Denmark), to be bouth to low down stupid, ("low down": I can help it now), and to simple/primitive/childish/crude.
But I have to admid that I find my selv whit a little twisty boyish smile on my "growing up" face.
It is sweet & innocent. And very boylike.
And I find it just passable. Hi ha ho.
My father would have liked it.
And/But:
I realy like, and enjoy whatcing this different kind of film, no matter if it is wood or cameldump or whatever they "use to warm up the freezing desert nights".
Seriously roark is right; it's dried camel poopettes.
I've been to other parts of the world where firewood is lacking and similar materials are recycled for firewood; e.g. buffalo or cow patties in parts of India.
Sometimes incense is added to improve aromas.
Does smelling the mixture of incense and camel dung result in having religious visions? If so, I would imagine most of those visions would be terrifying.
At various parts during their trek across the desert you see scrub brush and even trees growing by the side of an oasis here and there. What happens is the wind will blow dead branches and stalks of plants every which way across the desert, so yes, you CAN stumble across the odd piece of wood here and there even though you are surrounded by sand. It's meager pickings, but it's there.
I think Bonnard was simply picking up the dead wood from these sorts of desert plants.
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