theories over the sands

'You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;/ 'They called me the hyacinth girl.'/ —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,/ Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not/ Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither/ Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,/ Looking into the heart of light, the silence./ Od' und leer das Meer.
T S Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922

Various theories abound over the sands as to the origins of such a flowery name. Many will point to the earliest models, some dating back to the 1940s, that you will still find in the desert. The front bumper resembles a moustache if you look long enough. Others talk of a moustache’s metaphorical significance, pointing to leadership, manliness and strength. Whatever its origins, one thing is beyond argument – this is the undisputed king where the road ends.

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