"Disgusted and appalled with today’s noisy and noisome world in which all is spectacle and surface sensation, Nick flees into the solitude of the desert. But even as he manages to recover some sort of spiritual balance thanks to an ascetic regimen of fasting and meditation, he is seduced by the most spectacular and mesmerizing spectacle of all time: the procession of the Queen of Saba." -- Amazon website.
"This book owes a debt to The wiggle much - thirteen half-page installments that appeared in the New York herald between March and June of 1910 - the unique, well-known comic strip work of Herbert E. Crowley. His character appears in the last vignette, on page 90." -- Verso.