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64 The Wages of Sin. XII THE APPLES In my garden are seven kinds of apples1 ; and there are seven kinds of louse2 on the once velvet buttocks of my Habib. The smooth whiteness is now become a red roughness ; he is spotted like a leper. He is no more fit for the desire of a clean man ; even his seducers, the black-skinned swine ! having found a boy with tulip cheeks and coralline ; and a bosom of jessamine ; and eye- brows like Karenian3 bows for beauty of line ; and breath like wine ; and buttocks fair and firm and fine ; and a podex like a rub…
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…ou camest in to me at night thou wast all in tears ; and clasping my feet didst moan exceedingly, and beseech pity. Yet when I smote thy buttocks with the whip, bidding thee be cheerful, thou didst rise instant with laughter and smiles. Thou didst put on thy old provoking coquetry ; though for many days thou hadst drunk nothing but water, thou didst comport thyself as one in whom the wine first blu- sheth.2 Also when my love revived for thee a little, thou didst not immodestly thrust out thy buttocks, and show bare a gaping and hungry podex. On…
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…2. Hindus, etc. The sins of the soul. Cf. Ezekial XVI and XXIII — indeed the whole symbolism of the Hebrew prophets. 3. Meaning that his buttocks are now public, like a serai ; while before they were private, like a harem. 4. From the Q’uran. But possibly a threat, equalling “ God may forgive you, but I never will ”, as our demi-virgin Astraea Redux told the trea- cherous Countess.
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…e the rose, or another flower ; it resembles nothing but a podex, the po- dex of a peevish and filthy sodomite. When thou didst veil thy buttocks with the spangled muslin of Egypt, we cried out that it was the face of Allah radiant through the stars of night — for we were excessively drunk, Habib ! — But yesterday we laughed even louder when my women veiled thee as to thy face with a black veil, and Laila cried : “ Allah be praised, the Concealer, that He hath permitted us to conceal the podex of this pig.” Thou didst not laugh, O spoiler of sp…
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…rgetteth that he hath it, not valuing it. To him who so acts the Attainment of thy bed is certain. It is only necessary to have seen thy buttocks agitated in walking beneath thy tunic for a wise man to abandon all other pursuits.3 All this hath El Qahar achieved ; therefore for him thou wilt push out thy buttocks, causing that blush rose, thy podex, to expand. The member of El Qahar will wallow therein like a water buffalo at noon in the pools of mud. Come, Habib, thou hast not been sodomized since sunset ; the member of El Qahar is erect and s…
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…3 XLII BAGH-I-MUATTAR Ye cypress-breasted boys of birth, attend the coming of the gloom ! Expose your breasts of jasmine, show your lily buttocks all abloom ! Let Love awake, and blush, as Love comes glimmering from the starry womb, With standing member all aglow, purpled with cloth from Rapture’s loom. O tulip cheeks ! O lips of rose ! the joy of Allah ye assume, Rejoicing in the luscious play, the slippery splendour of the spume Cast from the holy hiding-place for ever till the day of doom. Rejoice, O podex, in thy strength ! thy spasms like …
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50 The Impotence of Thought to perceive Reality. VI THE CURTAIN Thy podex, like a rose, within Thy buttocks, sprays of jessamine, Buds to my kisses ; then the wine Sets this old head of mine aspin, So that I push thee to thy knees— A worship, darling, not a sin. Deep as I plunge, I do not break Within the velvet of thy skin. Do what I will, thy Self is hid From me by envy of the Jinn. So, when I think, I cannot pierce The truth of things ; I cannot win Unto the real ; life’s wheel is kept From turning by its axle-pin.1 But swing thine hips and …
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…of life and making per- mament the scene. The Zahid looks from Life to Death ; The Sufi gath- ers Death from Life ; Thy podex ’twixt thy buttocks lies, the Future and the Past between. The Sufi pierces, gains and holds the Present ; can the present fade ? Never ! through all the seas of time fares on the prow erect and keen.3 The keel a member fit to pierce the podices of ocean-lords, Clasped to thy gushing bosom-waves, o pearly amorous undine !
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….2 While stands my member, blooms by rose, Wine I can drink, or huqqa3 smoke, So long I laugh at Aflatun, And fun at Aristu4 I poke. Thy buttocks with their splendid sun This joy in me have ever woke ; In rapture alway El Qahar His spirit is content to soak. 1. Pious folk — Wahhabi [Persian text] the Mus- lim strictarians. 2. Obscure. I doubt if the Q’uran forbids sodo- my. See Q’uran XV, where the fault of the people appears to be their breach of hospitality, always a stigma in primitive communities. The Bible is just as broadminded on the poi…
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…overcometh Individuality. XXIV THE BLASPHEMER Hast thou never thought, O Habib of the athletic body, that when thou wrigglest thy velvet buttocks with immense vigour, and bitest hard with thy po- dex-muscle upon the member of El Qahar, that thou hast no remembrance of any circumstance connected with my personality or thine, but art completely absorbed by the act ? It causes me to remember an antient folly and blasphemy spoken to me — Allah purify mine ears ! — by a certain Sufi, who, being excessively drunk, had lost control over his tongue. Fo…
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…roaches of God. X. The Black Stone I have kissed the black stone of the Ka’abah,1 O Habib ! but a thousand times the black mole upon thy buttocks. I have seen a thousand men kiss the black stone of the Ka’abah ; but I hear that the pilgrims to thy house are even more numerous than the Hujjaj.2 Omar3 was an ass ; but he is buried—Allah curse him ! — at El Medinah ; only those with members like an ass find any permanent resting place in thy mosque. His4 member is firmer than a rock, sayest thou ? But I will bottle and drown him.5 It is disgracefu…
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…Hindus and Afghans, Nu- bian slaves and immodest boys from Bushir.2 When they saw thee of old, with thy tunic hang- ing upon thy jutting buttocks, like the flowing dra- peries of the Caliph’s tent, men said of thee : “ The complexions of the women are well shaded from the sun.” Now it is thin and transparent, that tun- ic of thine, and people are saying : “ Please Allah it may not rain ; else will the horses catch cold and die ! ”.3 Every gossip comes to me and prates of thy mis- demeanours ; my beard waves with anger like an old goat’s. Come t…
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…(for there is no might nor any potency save in the Almighty !2) as having two podices like suns on the horizon in a duststorm ; and four buttocks, shaking in a con- fused manner. Therefore I did take council with Husein-i-Abdal1 as to what it were fitting to do ; and he bade me look upon my member, whether it were one or two. Now then my eyes gave the lie to my hand ; but rushing upon thee like a bull, I did pe- netrate to the core of thy being ; and great joy overcoming me I fell down, assured that there was but one. Thus it is with the unbeli…
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…e Un- iverse is he for thee, and there is none like him, assauging thy desire. Worthy of glory and honour is my member, who divideth thy buttocks, and assembleth thy whole soul in thy podex, like a great king gathering an army in one place, assuaging thy desire. Rich is my member in pearly dew, and enricheth thy podex therewith ; he refuseth to withdraw the- refrom, and afficteth thee with the sweet pain of a thousand orgasms,11 like the bitings and pinchings of a courtesan,12 assuaging thy desire. [persian] Ya13 My member bestoweth much advant…
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…jasmine in Iran, Ha- bib, just as thy podex has the essence of all its roses. But it is too much like the bosom of a wom- an. Though thy buttocks are like nargis, they are no longer firm. This is because thou lingerest in bawdy talk in taverns, drinking forbidden liquors ; because thou dalliest all day with that camel-backed monocular from Nubia. He serveth thee without remission from the Wolf’s Tail2 to the Evening Star, O thou eaten up with beastliness ! and for this thou forgettest the manly games of youth. When I first had thee, thou wast l…
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… the case, I did not cause thee to be violently enlarged by the eunuchs with divers fruits.6 ’Twould have given thee more pain, O boy of buttocks more beautiful than the peaches of Shiraz !
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…; for not until the dawn breaks will El Qahar withdraw his member. 1. So our best M.S. [Persian text] But [Persian text] flesh — meaning buttocks — sounds more likely. Consideration of prosody support the text. 2. Meteor-struck : meteors are the stones flung by the angels at the Jinn who pry into Heaven. This epithet confirms our view of the allegory. 3. Eunuchs. Those from whom the testicles only are removed can still copulate, and experience sexual orgasm, though of course no fecundation results. Hence the possibility of Gibbon’s remark that …
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…a rough esti- mate. The 1,000 pounds’ weight seems to me an absurd overstatement. 3. Refers, in all probability, to the reddening of the buttocks. The Persians supposed the smaller capillary blood vessels to be nerves. 4. Imam — a leader of prayer. Muslim have no “ priests ” in the sense of paid mediators. 5. Mushtari — also Birjis [Persian text] is the planet Jupiter. Most nations seem to attribute a blue or violet colour to it ; for mystical reasons, doubtless, but also because (to my eyes at least) it actually has that colour. 6. I suspect, …
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…er, by Allah ! Nor, though He plagueth His lovers, is He ever wroth against them. So eagerly did I kiss every red weal upon thy vel- vet buttocks that thou didst wish thy beating had been prolonged by a whole day. Also, for every peppercorn that did shoot from thy podex, thou hadst a balm. Wise art thou who badest me sell this my garden to buy more pepper therewithal.6 Repine not, therefore, O man ! at the chastise- ments of Allah ! Each of these will He a thousand- fold repay. And the pain that I suffered at thine infidelities is well repaid b…