The Scented Garden

88 Free Will the reward of Union. Just so in India “ rupee ” means any coin. “ Ja- hanpana ghulamko rupaiye dijiye ” “ May the Sup- port of the Universe be pleased to bestow rupees upon (his) slave ! ” is adequately answered by any sum from a halfpenny upwards. 2. Kaffur means Camphor, white wax, and is a lucus a non lucendo insult given to unusually black slaves. 3. Though both Mohammedans and Jews are circumcised, there is a difference in the technique of the operation which would enable an expert to tell at a glance to which religion a man belonged. It is alleged by some that the toughening and har- dening of the glans penis which results from the operation predisposes to sodomy, inasmuch as a greater intensity of friction is required to produce emission. True, but a moist and flabby vulva of gigantic size is poor fun for anybody. Undoubted- ly, a hardened tool does (in mathematical lan- guage) “ flatten the curve ” of rising excitement, and this is the secret alike of giving and receiving plea- sure. The Hindu bayadere compares the average Sahib to a village cock, and the passionate En- glishwoman jeers at her brutal and hasty husband for his “ two-puffs-and-a-spit ” performances. 4. It is more than possible that the Haji had some unpleasant experience of the magistracy, or at least a personal spite against one of its mem- bers. For the symbolizing of Fate by human law is not so obvious to a Persian as to an Englishman : in Persia the defendant has plenty of free will, if he has plenty of cash. But our poet flourished no doubt in a Golden Age.