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…aded 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 to me, and I will beat thee sound- ly ; and if thou offendest again I will carry thee be- fore this ass-calibred Qazi—Allah on him !—I know well what punishment he will give thee—love ; but ever after thou shalt have no need to be a thou- sand, but accommodate…
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…nd breath like wine ; and buttocks fair and firm and fine ; and a podex like a ruby mine ; have cast him off.4 Until Shahrava5 return he will no more pass current. Let him buy a dildo, for his cry for mem- bers is ceaseless as the jackal’s ! Nay ! But come to me, Habib ! I will cherish thee as my life ; I will take thee in my garden and love thee ever as of old. El Qahar will make new songs for thee, till thy fame standeth for ever among men, as the sun standeth in the sky, not to be denied.6 So sayeth El Qahar. 1. Often the case in Persia. 2. …
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…bemoan- ing thy Nubian that I have not his vigour. Thou whose podex has become like the twat of one sixty years an whore !4 Therefore, I will put thee in my harem for the fil- thy slut thou art ; the eunuchs shall beat thee soundly before the women ; and this night I will go in to Laila,5 whom most thou hatest of all my con- cubines. While thou wast away, I wooed thee with soft words and lamentations ; now I have my will of thee, I will treat thee with great severity. So also doth Allah entreat kindly the wicked ; and upon the just raineth plag…
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…contrary about his mother everything is known. For himself, since we know so much, none desireth to know more. I think, however, that we will make him some- what drunk, or even excessively drunk, and that in that condition we will lead him to the house of Fatma, where the old humbug3 shall fornicate with the ugliest of the slave girls. Also setting him upon an ass4 with his face to the tail, we will conduct him to the Qazi saying : “ These, O Qazi, be broth- ers ; but the malice of a wizard hath changed the elder and more foolish into the sembl…
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… see the joke. 8. Shahrava was a despot who forced leather money into circulation. The passage means accord- ing to Mahbub that El Qahar will not use a leather dildo, but his own stalwart member, upon the po- dex of Habib ; but I prefer to think that he simply means “ I will not beat thee ” i.e. with leather thongs. In all countries beating is jestingly spoken of as “ payment.” Besides, the whole ode concerns active punishment, not mere deprivation of plea- sure. (See note to XII. Ed.)
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…ean upon the golden rampart, and watch for me to come ! Be first to meet me, sweetheart ! forgive me for all the wrong I did you here. I will try and be a good wife to you, darling, if you will give me one more chance to hold your love. I had heaven in your kisses, and I went to seek it in the cloister.11 I loved you al- ways ; it was but a boy’s folly ; forgive me ! I may never cling to you on earth again : pray God that Heaven may be one long, long life of such bliss as we had of one another long ago by yon slow stream on whose banks I have w…
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…ips of hide. So that she became unconscious ; and her repu- tation was of chastity and prudence.4 Therefore, as to-night is full moon, I will ac- quaint thee with a certain cherry-tree that hangs over a cool reach of Ruknabad. Under its blossom we will sit in our boat and listen to the water. Go therefore and anoint thee with rose ; and besmear thy podex with jasmine mixed with ambergris in oil5 ; for not until the dawn breaks will El Qahar withdraw his member.6
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…dug holes in his skin and filled them with lighted bamboo-shoots dipped in wax, is said to have observed : These are many flamelets, and will soon expire, but my soul is One Flame, and will not. And there is a tale of an harlot, who retorted on some men who reviled her : “ You are like the raindrops ; but this my vul- va is One Pool.” They stoned her for the blasphe- my.
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…hat etherial dances ? By what eternal streams ? ” shall I find you, sweet acolyte of Salmacis or of Terpsichore, of Bacchus or Sabrina ? Will it be you on yonder bank of yellow moss by the sunspangled rivulet that tumbles noisily from the throne of God ? Will it be you with your fine golden hair like spiders’ webs in the sun, changed to an aureole, and your seductive face still as ever the incarna- tion of one single never-ending scarlet kiss ? Will yours be the long pale hands to mould my body to your liking ; and yours the faithful, the unfai…
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…troduction It is the sort of order that acquits a man of the charge of doing nothing for posterity, for assuredly nobody who knows India will try to raise false hopes in me that I may live long enough to see it. I would warn scholars that, unless they are in some way definitely mystics and truly acknowl- edged as such, they will do better to hunt for the lost books of Livy than for the Bagh-i- muattar. There is no copy in any public library here or in the East : not surprising, when one hears Platt in 1874 complain that of so famous a classic a…
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Free Will the reward of Union. 87 XX THE QAZI If I had ever been angry with thee, O luscious buttocked tulip ! I would have forgiven thee for thy device upon this cow-bellied Qazi. I am repaid pouch the hundred dirhams1 thereof. For, supping with him, thou didst make him exceedingly drunk. Then, introducing Abdullah Kaffur,2 that catamite of our grandfathers, thou didst present to the besotted fellow that poxy podex with its heaped haemorrhoids, like a well whose wall has been broken down. Now therefore that ass-membered one — Allah forget him …
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… ; 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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…the enlightenment of the soul ; the exhalation the holy influence shed by the Sufi upon his fellow man — and so on. Mahbub was perfectly willing to explain every phrase in the book along these lines ; reasonable people will agree that a single sample is enough. But see the note 1 on XXXVIIIth Ghazal. 4. Aristu — Aristotle. Most sensible men will heartily agree with these sentiments. El Qahar is more than mystic and sodomite ; he is a practical person. But perhaps the unusual word huqqa is a pun on hukm (command) and the phrase means, “ As long …
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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 b…
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…shalt have a caress for every star. But there is only one moon, and only once shall thy podex be invaded ; for not until the dawn breaks will El Qahar withdraw his member. Even so that happy one, who is united with Al- lah, shall never leave Him ; so the crimson of the West shall fade into the blue of the whole sky, and the blue be illumined by the streamers of the false dawn, which is like death as the true dawn is like the last day.7 I hope, Habib, that thy podex is ca- pable of severe combat ; for not until the dawn breaks will El Qahar with…
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…ometallist) loving women as you do, sir, do you go to boys and men ? Is it only for variety ? If not, in what does the charm consist ? I will enumerate the conditions, and that cheer- fully, since it will incidentally enable me to justify that very remarkable phrase used above, the spiri- tuality of Sodomy. A woman can afford two pleasures to a man, which a boy cannot : namely : (1) the pleasure of the cunnilinge. (2) common copulation. (both these either with or without ‘ Red and white roses ’ i.e., menses and leucorrhoea.) Common to either se…
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… ! It grips him body and soul. Once and for all, Whatever befall, He is bound to the golden goal By the joy of his shuddering spine.” He will know that in the rites of sodomy duly done, even more than in the rites of heterosexual passion, lies the great secret of the Universe, the Key of the Gardens of God..... But I must not proselytize : many are called, but few chosen ; a sodomite is born, not made ; you can’t make a silk sodomite out of an English groc- er’s boy ; one sodomite doesn’t make a scan- dal ; take care of the boys, and the girls …
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…ble to receive it, let him receive it ! The law manufactures sodomites as it manufac- tures habitual criminals. Legalize sodomy, and you will diminish it ; or even if, as you seem to fear, you increase it, you will see no change in society but an advance in re-
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Introduction 13 This being understood, it may be granted with- out further discussion that the intelligent study of the Bagh-i-muattar will yield deeper knowledge — the husks for the scholar, the wheat for the elect — than any other known poem. Now the revealing of one is the revealing of all : for from Fez to Nikko, there is one mysticism and not two. The fanatic followers of el Senussi can suck the pious honey from the obscene Aphor- isms of Kwaw, and the twelve Buddhist sects of Japan would perfectly understand the inarticulate yells of the …
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…g which might by any possibility be used as such, to a courtesan is a deadly insult, implying “ You cannot attract a live man ”, and she will assuredly have you murdered sooner or later if she can. 6. A proverb and a pun, [Persian text] denial, [Persian text] splendour.