France X, in the Footsteps of Otto Rahn by Jack Heart & Jon Valentine Lee

“Have you thought of Al-Lāt and al-ʻUzzā And Manāt, the third, the other? “ These are the exalted gharāniq, whose intercession is hoped for." - The "Satanic Verses"

We awoke to the appalling heat that would hold the entire Occitan in an iron grip till the day we left France at the end of August. It would be a factor when we got to the Pyrenees. We took the highway to Arles in spite of the heavy tolls. French roads are heavily tolled, to the tune of about a Euro every ten miles, or about sixteen kilometers. There ar…