The Scented Garden

Devotion better than learning. 123 But the light-hearted Sufi thither floats Breasting God’s waves with Life for coracle. So El Qahar defies the host of Fate, Having thy podex for a citadel. 1. Zemzem. The holy well at Mecca. Its waters are excessively foul, and even the most devout make a wry face when drinking them. 2. Jasmine podex — surely a true perversion of sense ! Yet the adjective is as invariable as pius for Aeneas and fidus for Achates. 3. Fatihah, the first chapter of the Q’uran. To recite it 1,000 times nightly causes one to become a great Sheikh. 4. Surely Oriental exaggeration. A. L. (Not at all. I do not think that El Haji necessarily means separate and distinct emissions ; he may mean thrusts. Now even the uneducated Briton, with a little practice, can learn to retain his semen for 3 to 6 hours without withdrawal or prolonged rest. Allowing only four thrusts on an average per minute, it would require but four hours and ten minutes to fulfil these conditions. Ed.) Ingenious, but absurd. The Persian does not admit the same ambiguity as my English. A. L. (True. I wrote the above without a copy of the text at hand. But the discussion will prevent repe- tition of my false conjecture. Ed.) 5. Observe that the very idea of irrumation nev- er once enters his pure mind. The subject of this peculiar vice is a very extended one. I think that the orthodox Muslim probably fears the defilement of his mouth, or that of his lover. He would not object to being thus excited by a woman, who is already from crown to sole one mass of