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Mysteries of an unknown time.

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Within the three walls, where men did
not penetrate, we were born.

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Astarte, mother of the world,
fountainhead of all the gods.

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I will reveal it, but not that which I
may not.

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Circling the phallic shrine, 120 women
run crying as they know not what.

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The novices in the clothes of men, The
rest in tunics already rent in two.

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Fumes of fragrant essences, fumes of
blazing torches floated over us.

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Naked, I cried burning tears.

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Every one of us at the feet of Berber
were bent on our backs.

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And finally, when the act, religious,
was consummated, and after we had

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plunged the colored phallus into the
eternal triangle, then the mystery

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began.

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But I will speak of it no longer

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Wherever rain falls throughout the
world, the land turns green with

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vegetation, and rivers sparkle with
clean transparency, reflecting

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the skies.

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But in every large city of the world,
there lies a devastated corner where the

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rain falls on the people, and they
become grayer.

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In New York, the largest city, the
corner becomes a mile-long street

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of devastated humans.

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The wandering souls who live here desire
nothing but the waters of

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forgetfulness so that they can proceed
unthinking to the

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grave.

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In the rain, a man not quite an empty
shell, the rain still

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bothers him a bit.

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The thought of the approaching winter's
cold still worries him.

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The loneliness of this self-isolation
still empties him,

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and he feels an occasional desire for
another human being

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to share a... part of his perverted
life.

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Hunger to him is nothing but the hunger
for others

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still remains.

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The world is made of man-made trash.

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He seeks his own existence in the
discards of others,

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rarely finding anything.

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Someone passed and lost his soul.

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It oozes in the gutter.

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Nothing is trite, for nothing is finally
nothing.

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Another derelict.

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His mind festers with things unresolved.

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On the spinning world he sits and sees
an emptiness go round.

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round he is surrounded by his books and
very little

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else seeps past the alcoholic filter a
filter of

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truth he says a filter of escape
forgetfulness another way

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forget the failure the dead the living
smiles and touching

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glances forget to touch it all

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Just read and look and look and fear and
hate and sicken and sicken

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until the beautiful becomes ugly and the
ugly unspeakable.

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There they are, outside his window.

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Normal or not, there they are.

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And every night he sees a girl, a girl
who enters her own dim cell.

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and all he sees is a solitary glimpse of
her in her window. This girl who has no

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lover, who has no friends, she is he
after all, and is alone,

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alone to do whatever she wants, and he
imagines it

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in all its ugliness.

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She has no lover, and she says no man
shall ever have her.

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Her skin is made of man's
disillusionment.

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Her heart beats down my desires.

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A body without heat.

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A life without breath.

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In my soul's eye, I see her axe.

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She too is drunk, encircled by an
alcohol of lust.

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I am drunk on wine.

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On virtue.

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On poetry.

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I am drunk on anything.

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real matters.

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Thoughts fly, and she is mine.

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I grow warm as she rides.

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A thing ecstatic in and of itself.

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A thing possessed of narcissistic
inwinding keen intensity.

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Looking inward to the void.

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Pleasure finding nothing.

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Feeling something.

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Knowing nothing.

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Twisting into discontent.

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I am still in pain.

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What can she wash away?

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The grime and dirt of centuries.

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Woman personifies my torments.

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She cannot erase the pain that flesh has
caused me.

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She is a living tomb of flesh.

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In her, nothing will grow.

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For she is dead.

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place lilacs in her hair and they will
wither in the dank perfume of her skin.

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Abomination.

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The curse of all men.

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Vicious harbinger of sorrow.

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All your torments remain.

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feels nothing.

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Only dreams remain to bridge the chasm
of mountainous ruin.

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A liquor, sweeter than any alcohol,
pervades my subconscious.

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And I sleep, dreaming of mystic veils
and cushions covering and uncovering the

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glorious female flesh.

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In my sleep, in my dreams, my dreams,

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dreams of poetry.

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I rise and seek the Father, Son of
eternal love.

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In poetry.

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The love of a woman is the most
beautiful love that mortals can feel.

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And you would think this true, Cleon.

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If you possessed a truly voluptuous
spirit, but you think only of yourself.

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You wasted your nights loving the men
who belittle us.

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Look at them now.

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They are ugly.

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Compare their heads clipped oval with
our boundless heads of hair.

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Do you see our white breasts on their
chest?

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Alongside their narrow flanks, consider
our luxurious haunches, a bed deep

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and hollow for a lover.

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And tell me, do they even wish to have
lips supremely voluptuous as ours?

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You are sick, Cleon, but you are a woman
who can still fight.

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Go to the house of young Styro.

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Her cleft is as pink sun, and she will
not refuse you the pleasure that she

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herself delights in.

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I threw myself into her arms, weeping,
and for a long time she felt my warm

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tears flow on her shoulder.

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until my sadness let me speak.

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Ah, I am only a child.

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The young men will not look at me.

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But when will I, like you, have the
breasts of a young woman swelling my

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dress and inviting kisses?

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No eyes are interested if my tunic hangs
so straight against my body.

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No one picks up a flower that falls from
my hair.

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No one says it will kill him if my mouth
were given to another.

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She replied tenderly, Billetus, dear
virgin, you wail like a cat at the moon

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and upset yourself without any reason.

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The most impatient girls are never
chosen first.

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She has gone out.

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She is far from me, but I see her.

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for all things in the room all pertain
to her and I, like all the rest.

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This bed still warm, over which I let my
lips wander, is disordered with the

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imprint of her form.

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Upon this soft cushion is lain her
little head, enveloped in its wealth of

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hair.

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This basin is that in which she hath
bathed.

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This comb has penetrated the knots of
her tangled locks.

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These slippers beg for her naked feet.

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These pockets of gauze contained her
breast.

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What I dare not touch is the mirror in
which she gazed upon her bruises, and

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where perhaps remains still the
reflection of her moist lips.

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Why should I paint my lips?

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Why should I polish my nails?

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Why should I perfume my hair?

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Why redden my breast if they will never
entice her?

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Why bathe my arms in milk if they will
never embrace her?

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How will I sleep?

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How will I lie in my bed?

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This evening my hand does not find her
warm hand.

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I do not dare anymore to return to my
house and into my empty dreadful room.

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I do not dare now to reopen my door.

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I no longer dare even to open my eyes.

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I am beautiful now, a long time.

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But the day will come when I will no
longer be a woman.

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Then I will know torn memories, burning
solitary desires, and tears falling

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on my hands.

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If life is a long dream, what good to
resist it?

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Now, four or five times in a night, I
demand the delights of a lover.

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And when my flanks are satisfied, I go
to sleep wherever my body falls.

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In the morning I open my eyelids and I
shiver in my hair.

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There is a dove on my windowsill.

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I ask her what month it is.

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She says it is the month of women in
love.

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And so this is the month the dove speaks
truth.

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So I throw up my two arms around my
lover, and trembling wildly, I stretch

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my still numb legs toward the foot of
the bed.

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Believe not that I have ever loved thee.

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I have eaten thee as I would have liked
sick.

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I have drank thee as I would drink hot
water.

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I have carried thee about me like a belt
of skin.

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I have amused myself with thy body,
because thou hast short hair and breasts

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upon thy chest, and nipples like two
little dates.

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Just as one must have water and fruit, a
woman is also necessary.

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But already I have forgotten thy name,
thou who is passed between my arms like

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the shadow of another adored one.

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Between thy flesh and mine a burning
dream has possessed me.

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I pressed thee upon me as though upon a
wound, and I cried, Nasedika!

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Nasedika!

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Nasedika!

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Fresh like flowers, oh my breath, how
rich you are in voluptuousness.

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My breasts in my hands, what lack you of
softness, of mellow warmth, and of

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youthful perfume.

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Already you are polished like the breath
of a statue, and hard like the

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insensible marble.

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In order that you may submit, I will
cherish you the more, you that were

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already loved.

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Your sleek and rounder form is the honor
of my brown body.

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Whether I imprison you under a necklace
of gold, or leave you free and naked,

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You precede me with your splendor.

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Be then happy this night.

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My fingers toy with you in caresses.

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You alone will know them until tomorrow
morning.

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For this night, Biletus.

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as paid billeters.

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And I refused to say it. I said, no, no.

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I turned my face away.

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The kiss did not cross my lips.

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And passion did not enter my cold legs.

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And now I am alone.

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I look at the deserted place.

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I clench my fists until they bleed.

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And I stifle my thoughts in the pillow.

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Thou thinkest thou lovest me no more,
Talia, and since a month has passed by

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nights at table, as if the fruits, the
wines, the honey could make thee forget

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my lips.

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Thou thinkest that thou lovest me no
more, poor fool.

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Saying that, I untied my moist towel and
rolled about his head.

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He was still all warm with the heat of
my body.

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The perfume of my skin poured out of its
fine meshes.

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He breathed with long breath.

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His eyes closed.

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Then I felt that he had returned to me.

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And even so clearly, his desires
reawakened.

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And he hit them not.

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But as a ruse, I knew how to resist.

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No, my friend.

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This night, Lysispis possesses me.

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Adding as I fled, Ogremond of fruits and
wine.

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The little garden of Biletus has but one
sake, but it is good.

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A hand reaches across the void and lifts
me bodily from the endless fields of

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vibrant perfumes to bring me back to
him.

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An angel from hell.

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A twisted mental hunchback.

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He hopes to lead me into his world of
sunless days and down beneath black,

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slimy rivers.

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I see his face.

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The face of the ancient tribes.

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The face I hate.

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In the gutter lies dirt caked by
sewerage.

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In the sewerage, his face is reflected.

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Beneath decaying trash, he and his
bedfellows lie.

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He is a friend after all.

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His eyes, his face are vulgar, decayed
with modding desire.

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But his bottle holds riches fragrant and
odorless.

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Sweet and eternally better.

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I shall drink.

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Neither brain nor senses shall grow
soft.

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My body's worth I have reserved for
Aphrodite's altar.

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My body has been consecrated.

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And this defilement must now be avenged.

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Thy alabaster skin, the phallic mace
shall kill.

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that threatens to separate us,
Aphrodite.

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I comfortably again sleep to things real
and beautiful, to

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things soft and flowing, to dreams of a
goddess's love.

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Amphias, young girl of Lydia, has seven
veils upon her.

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She loosens the first, and her black
hair spreads around her.

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The second, she slides across her mouth.

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The third reveals her naked arms.

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She separates the fourth veil from her
breasts, and she is nude.

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The fifth veil disappears.

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The sixth is drawn across her shoulders.

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But the last gossamer whispers.

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She leaves breasts tightly in her.

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saying where are my roses where are my
perfume violets

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where are my tops of parsley here are my
roses

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here are my perfume violets here are my
beautiful

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Why am I become lesbian, O Biletus, thou
ask me?

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But what player of the flute is not a
lesbian, in some degree?

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I am poor, I have no bed, and I lie with
her who wishes me, and I

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thank her with that which I have.

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When we are small, we already dance
naked, and what dances, thou knowest, my

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dear one.

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The Twelve Desires of Aphrodite.

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We look upon each other. We compare the
beauty of our nakedness.

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And we find it beautiful.

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During the long night, we are warmed by
the pleasure of the looker's arms.

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But our ardor is not faint.

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And so strongly do we feel it, that
sometimes behind the doors, one of

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us may embrace a companion who can
sense.

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How do we make love with a man who is
rude to us?

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He takes us as he would take a woman and
leaves us before the orgasm.

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Thou that art a woman and knowest what I
mean, thou canst take it as for

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thyself.

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My hair is black, the length of my back
and my buttocks small

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and round.

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My tunic is of white wool.

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My browned hips enclose the sun.

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If I were to live in the city, I would
have golden jewels and tunics of gold

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and sandals of silver.

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I look at my naked feet in their dusty
shoes.

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Sophists, come to me, poor darling.

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Draw me back to your source.

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Wash my feet in your hands.

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and press olive over violets, perfuming
them with the flowers.

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I will perfume all my skin that I may
attract lovers.

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Upon my beautiful legs in a basin of
silver, I will pour the

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spikenard of Tarsos, the Metatopian of
Egypt.

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Under my arms, crushed mint.

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Upon my eyebrows and upon my eyes.

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Marjolaine of Couz.

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Slave, take down my hair and fill it
with the smoke of incense.

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Behold the old math of the mountains of
Kypris.

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I will let it run between my breasts.

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The liquor of roses which comes from
faceless shall embalm my neck and my

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cheeks. And come, pour out upon my loins
the irresistible

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Baccarat.

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It is better for a courtesan that she
should know the perfumes of Lydia than

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the customs of Peloponnese.

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Close softly thine arms around me like a
girdle.

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Oh, touch, touch my skin thus.

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Neither water nor the breath of the
south wind are softer than thy hand.

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Today, dear me, little sister, it is thy
turn.

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Remember thou the endearments that I
taught thee last night, and kneel thou

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near me when fatigued.

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Kneel thou in silence.

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Thy lips descend upon my lips.

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All thine undone hair follows them as a
caress follows a kiss.

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Thy locks glide upon my left breast.

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They hide thine eyes.

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Give me thy hand.

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It is hot.

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Press mine and leave it me.

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Hands better than lips unite.

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And their passion is equal by nothing.

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Now, untie the ribbons and the hooks of
your tunics.

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Cast aside your sandals, the laces up
your legs, and the bindings from your

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breasts.

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Wash the black from your eyes and the
red from your lips.

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Remove the powder from your shoulders.

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and uncurl your hair into the water.

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For I want you completely pure, naked as
when you were born,

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at the feet of your fertile mother lying
before your virile father, so

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chaste that my mere hand on yours will
bring color to your lips, and that a

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single word from me whispered under your
ears.

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will cause your upturned eyes to move.

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Oh, if I think of her, my throat becomes
dry, my head swings,

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my breasts harden, and I'm ill.

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I tremble and cry.

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If I see my heart stops, hands tremble,
feet freeze, hellfire climbs my

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cheeks, pain beats in my temples.

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I touch her, I am mad.

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Arms stiff and knees weakened.

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I faint in front of her and I lay myself
in bed as if I were about to die.

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For everything she says to me, I am
blessed.

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The love of her is torture.

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And the passerbyers can hear my cry.

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One woman may robe herself in a tunic of
white wool.

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Another dress in a garment of silk and
gold.

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Another covers herself with flowers,
with leaves and grapes.

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As for me, I take no joy of life except
when naked.

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My lover takes me just as I am, without
robes or jewels or sandals.

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Behold me, Biletus, naked.

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Alone.

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My hair is black with its own blackness.

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My lips are red with their own color.

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My locks float about me free and round
like feathers.

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Take me as my mother made me in a night
of love long past.

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And if I please you thus, forget not to
tell me.

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My wondering hand upon her tunic sought
to divine the naked body, which softly

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bent like waves, or arching, stiffened
itself with shiverings of the skin.

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With her eyes in delirium, she signs
toward the bed.

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We have not the right to indulge our
love before the ceremony of a wedding.

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Delicately, with one hand, she opened
her blouse.

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Then held up to me her warm, sweet
breath, as one would offer to the gods a

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pair of living turtledoves.

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Love them well, she said to me.

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I love them dearly.

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They are my cherished ones, my tiny
darling.

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I amuse myself with them when I'm alone.

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I play with them.

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And I get pleasure from them.

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I splash them with milk.

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I sprinkle them with flowers.

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My delicate hair drawing them is kind to
their small tips.

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I caress them in shivers.

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I put them to bed in soft wool.

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Since I shall never have children, you
must nourish them, my love.

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And since they are so far from my own
mouth,

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Give them kisses for me.

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I would kiss the whole length of the
rich black locks that grace thy

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neck like wings.

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Oh, sweet bird.

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Oh, captured dove whose passion-filled
heart beats under my hand.

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I would take thy lips between mine own
as a babe takes the breast of its

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mother.

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when my kisses reach far and should
satisfy thy love lightly

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will I touch thy breasts and arms with
my tongue and lips and behind

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thine ears and upon thy cheek I will
leave the marks of my kisses and while I

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kiss thee my hands shall stray in mad
delight over the ivory nakedness of thy

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sensitive body trembling under

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Listen, Masadika.

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Hear the murmurings of my love in thine
ear, like the wild humming of the sea.

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Masadika, thy looks drive me mad. I will
close thy burning eyes with a kiss.

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I gasped, and seizing her hands, I
twisted them fiercely into the moist

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skin beneath my left breast.

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I rolled her head back and forth, and
her lips moved without speaking.

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my excited heart, strong and violent,
beat and beat against my breast, like a

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satyr caught in brambles, writhing.

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00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,800
She said to me, your heart will make you
ill.

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Oh, Nausicaa, I replied, that is not a
heart of a girl. This is a poor bird, a

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dove that waves his feeble wings.

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00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:09,680
The heart of a woman is more terrible,
like a patch of myrtle. It burns in

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flames beneath the flowers for me.

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It is there that I am sealed by
voracious Aphrodite.

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Beneath the gossamer sheet of wool we
slept, she and I.

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Our heads bent together as though we
were one, and the flame illuminated the

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sheet beneath us.

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And I saw her desirable body in
mysterious light.

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We were as close as possible to one
another, most free, most intimate,

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and most naked.

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We had loosened our hair to be even more
unfettered.

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00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:19,340
And in the confinement of the bed, our
two female odors mingled.

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Two natural perfumes.

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00:56:22,780 --> 00:56:28,560
No one in the world, not even the lamp,
saw us that night.

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00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:31,000
Which of us was loved?

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00:56:31,540 --> 00:56:33,520
She and I alone can tell.

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00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:36,480
And the men will never know.

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00:56:43,790 --> 00:56:50,410
Love me not with smiles or with lutes or
with plated flowers, but with thy

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heart and with thy tears, even as I love
thee with my sorrowing breast and

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00:56:57,290 --> 00:56:58,290
my moles.

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00:56:59,070 --> 00:57:04,490
When thy breasts alternate with my
breasts, when I feel thy life touch my

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00:57:04,490 --> 00:57:10,970
life, when thy knees stand up behind me,
then my panting mouth knows not more how

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to join itself to thine.

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00:57:18,750 --> 00:57:23,850
See, the lamp has died down, and the
darkness is upon us.

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00:57:24,610 --> 00:57:29,890
But I press thy moving body, and I hear
thy perpetual plaint.

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00:57:47,020 --> 00:57:53,800
As we are lying, our eyes closed, great
silence surrounds our

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bed.

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00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:58,180
Unforgettable night of the summer.

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00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:01,980
She begins to speak.

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00:58:03,620 --> 00:58:08,640
Since you do not hear me, oh, how I love
you.

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00:58:09,780 --> 00:58:11,920
And she repeats my name.

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00:58:13,300 --> 00:58:14,300
Billet.

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00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:16,200
Billet.

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00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:21,800
And she touches my skin with the tips of
her trembling fingers.

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00:58:23,380 --> 00:58:26,740
This mouth is mine and mine alone.

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00:58:27,820 --> 00:58:30,760
Is there one more beautiful in the
world?

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00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:34,640
Oh, my dear one, my dear one.

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00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:37,960
These naked arms are mine.

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00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:41,500
This neck and this hair.

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00:58:57,710 --> 00:58:59,570
Patterns of reality have disappeared.

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00:59:00,570 --> 00:59:06,550
Thoughts of others are twisted, but his
soul is cooled by virgin snows.

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00:59:07,470 --> 00:59:14,350
He sees himself as a lover bearing
flowers to his love, the girl

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00:59:14,350 --> 00:59:17,570
he has watched so often through his
window.

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00:59:18,410 --> 00:59:20,870
But he has changed her in his mind.

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00:59:21,450 --> 00:59:26,070
He sees her smiling at himself, a gentle
man.

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00:59:30,700 --> 00:59:31,980
Now I come to you my love.

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00:59:33,140 --> 00:59:35,460
I come across the labyrinth of time.

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00:59:40,580 --> 00:59:42,680
I come to bring you flowers for your
hair.

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01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:12,600
I dream of Venus and of your vision.

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01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:14,880
And it becomes a reality.

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01:00:16,180 --> 01:00:18,920
Our flesh becomes one.

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01:01:04,910 --> 01:01:11,750
His twisted mind sees his loved one,
sees her smile, and erases out the

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01:01:11,750 --> 01:01:13,090
horror of reality.

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01:07:32,910 --> 01:07:33,908
You're kissing.

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01:07:33,910 --> 01:07:35,390
And the way you curl.

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01:07:36,330 --> 01:07:38,270
Delicious and distracting girl.

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01:07:38,790 --> 01:07:41,090
Into one's arms and round about.

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01:07:42,350 --> 01:07:45,030
Inextricably in and out.

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01:07:45,710 --> 01:07:51,150
Turning luxuriously as twine. The
clasping tangles of the vine.

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01:07:51,990 --> 01:07:53,950
So loving to be loved.

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01:07:54,370 --> 01:07:56,630
So gay and greedy for a holiday.

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01:07:57,950 --> 01:08:00,250
Strong to embrace and long to kiss.

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01:08:00,860 --> 01:08:02,920
And strenuous for the sharper bliss.

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01:08:03,620 --> 01:08:06,200
A little tossing sea of sighs.

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01:08:06,900 --> 01:08:08,440
To the slow calm.

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01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:10,220
Seals up your eyes.

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01:08:10,940 --> 01:08:11,940
And then.

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01:08:12,540 --> 01:08:14,240
How prettily you sleep.

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01:08:14,540 --> 01:08:18,359
You nestle close and let me keep my
strained fingers in the nest.

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Of your most comfortable breast.

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01:08:21,500 --> 01:08:22,920
And as I dream.

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01:08:23,620 --> 01:08:24,620
Lying awake.

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01:08:25,020 --> 01:08:27,760
Of sleep well wasted for your sake.

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01:08:28,140 --> 01:08:30,380
I feel the very pulse and heat.

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01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:34,960
of your young lifeblood beat and beat
with mine.

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01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:38,720
And you are mine, my sweet.