Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant. Joel Golby
hours and I am delirious. The monkeys are British and the camels are beautiful.
‘It’s like,’ the translator, Ali, is telling me. ‘It’s like … young men, you know? To show off they have some money … it’s like: a camel.’
I say: ‘Right.’
‘So it’s like … horses. Or: falcons. You have falcons?’
‘No we do not.’
He is incredulous.
‘You don’t have falcons?’
‘We don’t have falcons.’
‘Ahhhh: that’s why you liked the falcons.’
Earlier we saw some falcons and yeah, alright, I’ll be honest: I lost my shit about the falcons. I liked the falcons.
‘Huh.’
For a moment we both pause in the heavy, heavy heat, trying to think of a British equivalent to camels that aren’t horses or falcons. ‘I guess,’ I say, and I am thinking of Instagram, and how the people I follow who are in a good place in their life use it, and what they show off about, and how they might mark the occasion of their good fortune and express it through ownership of an animal. ‘I guess … dogs? Pedigree dogs? Like a bulldog?’
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