kif-smoker

Updated: May 6, 2025

He was a long-limbed fellow, bronzed and bearded, with the vacant, glassy eyes of a kif-smoker; for kif kept him going often instead of food, and helped him to swing along day after day, untiring, like a camel, sleeping little, praying occasionally at a saint's tomb, fording the streams, trotting over the plains, his eyes fixed on the horizon "eating the miles," as Arabs say.

Isabel Savory - In the Tail of the Peacock