Unusual Word

I've been reading (nothing new there) a book Niko gave me ages ago called "Night & Horses & the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature." It's a bit dense so I'm alternating it with "One Thousand and One Nights" translated by Sir Richard Burton (not the one who married Elizabeth Taylor //grin//) and "McGarr and the Method of Descartes" by Bartholomew Gill.

Anyway, there is a section that discusses how in early Islamic times poets and lexicographers used to go out to the desert tribes in search of "lexical rarities" and to improve their knowledge of Arabic (because they thought that Arabic was in it purest use in the desert). One of the words mentioned just really appealed to me and I must find a way to use it somehow. "Bahlasa means 'to arrive suddenly from another country without any luggage'."

I imagine that really was a rarity back then when most people travelled by caravan for months to get anywhere. Maybe the aliens who built the pyramids gave them a hand "arriving suddenly." //grin//