1 00:00:02,961 --> 00:00:05,506 Mysteries of an unknown time. 2 00:00:06,548 --> 00:00:10,927 Within the three walls where men did not penetrate, 3 00:00:10,928 --> 00:00:15,933 we were born, Astarte, mother of the world, 4 00:00:16,058 --> 00:00:17,935 fountainhead of all the gods. 5 00:00:18,977 --> 00:00:22,105 I will reveal it, but not that which I may not. 6 00:00:23,190 --> 00:00:25,107 Circling the phallic shrine, 7 00:00:25,108 --> 00:00:28,445 one hundred twenty women run crying at they know not what. 8 00:00:29,279 --> 00:00:31,572 The novices in the clothes of men, 9 00:00:31,573 --> 00:00:34,284 the rest in tunics already rent in two. 10 00:00:35,410 --> 00:00:37,621 Fumes of fragrant essences, 11 00:00:37,871 --> 00:00:40,958 fumes of blazing torches floated over us. 12 00:00:41,208 --> 00:00:43,377 Naked, I cried burning tears. 13 00:00:44,086 --> 00:00:46,129 Every one of us at the feet of her bier 14 00:00:46,380 --> 00:00:48,048 were bent on our backs. 15 00:00:48,632 --> 00:00:53,637 And finally when the act religious was consummated, 16 00:00:53,887 --> 00:00:56,557 and after we had plunged the colored phallus into the 17 00:00:56,807 --> 00:01:01,061 eternal triangle, then the mystery began. 18 00:01:01,770 --> 00:01:04,898 But I will speak of it no longer. 19 00:01:56,867 --> 00:01:59,994 Wherever rain falls throughout the world, 20 00:01:59,995 --> 00:02:03,205 the land turns green with vegetation, 21 00:02:03,206 --> 00:02:07,127 and rivers sparkle with clean transparency 22 00:02:07,961 --> 00:02:09,379 reflecting the skies. 23 00:02:11,089 --> 00:02:13,674 But in every large city of the world, 24 00:02:13,675 --> 00:02:16,136 there lies a devastated corner 25 00:02:16,970 --> 00:02:21,975 where the rain falls on the people and they become grayer. 26 00:02:27,064 --> 00:02:30,901 In New York, the largest city, 27 00:02:31,068 --> 00:02:36,490 the corner becomes a mile-long street of devastated humans. 28 00:02:37,574 --> 00:02:40,576 The wandering souls who live here 29 00:02:40,577 --> 00:02:45,540 desire nothing but the waters of forgetfulness 30 00:02:46,083 --> 00:02:51,088 so that they can proceed on thinking to the grave. 31 00:03:45,016 --> 00:03:49,980 In the rain, a man not quite an empty shell, 32 00:03:50,856 --> 00:03:54,108 the rain still bothers him a bit. 33 00:03:54,109 --> 00:03:57,069 The thought of the approaching winter's cold 34 00:03:57,070 --> 00:03:58,822 still worries him. 35 00:03:59,656 --> 00:04:04,619 The loneliness of this self-isolation still empties him, 36 00:04:05,996 --> 00:04:08,999 and he feels an occasional desire 37 00:04:09,916 --> 00:04:11,668 for another human being 38 00:04:12,586 --> 00:04:15,881 to share a part of his perverted life. 39 00:04:16,339 --> 00:04:18,675 Hunger to him is nothing, 40 00:04:20,844 --> 00:04:22,721 but the hunger for others still remains. 41 00:04:23,472 --> 00:04:25,807 Still remains. 42 00:04:48,497 --> 00:04:53,335 For him, the world is made of manmade trash. 43 00:04:54,753 --> 00:04:57,339 He seeks his own existence 44 00:04:57,714 --> 00:05:01,009 in the discards of others, 45 00:05:01,176 --> 00:05:04,846 rarely finding anything. 46 00:05:08,266 --> 00:05:12,229 Someone passed and lost his soul. 47 00:05:13,563 --> 00:05:15,982 It oozes in the gutter. 48 00:05:19,611 --> 00:05:24,407 A life in which nothing is profound, nothing is trite, 49 00:05:25,784 --> 00:05:30,288 or nothing is finally nothing. 50 00:05:37,337 --> 00:05:38,547 Another derelict. 51 00:05:39,923 --> 00:05:44,636 His mind festers with things unresolved. 52 00:05:45,971 --> 00:05:48,222 On the spinning world he sits 53 00:05:48,223 --> 00:05:52,978 and sees an emptiness go round and round. 54 00:05:55,063 --> 00:05:57,399 He is surrounded by his books, 55 00:05:58,275 --> 00:06:01,611 and very little else seeps past 56 00:06:02,362 --> 00:06:05,156 the alcoholic filter, 57 00:06:05,323 --> 00:06:10,119 a filter of truth, he says, a filter of escape. 58 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,038 Forgetfulness another way, 59 00:06:13,039 --> 00:06:15,958 forget the failure, the dead. 60 00:06:15,959 --> 00:06:20,087 The living, smiles and touching glances. 61 00:06:20,088 --> 00:06:21,256 Forget to touch at all. 62 00:06:22,215 --> 00:06:26,136 Just read and look and look and fear 63 00:06:26,761 --> 00:06:29,222 and hate and sicken and sicken, 64 00:06:29,681 --> 00:06:32,017 until the beautiful becomes ugly 65 00:06:32,684 --> 00:06:35,978 and the ugly unspeakable. 66 00:06:35,979 --> 00:06:39,065 There they are, outside his windows. 67 00:06:40,066 --> 00:06:42,651 Normal or not, there they are. 68 00:06:42,652 --> 00:06:45,988 And every night he sees a girl, 69 00:06:45,989 --> 00:06:48,617 a girl who enters her own dim cell, 70 00:06:49,451 --> 00:06:54,121 and all he sees is a solitary glimpse of her in her window. 71 00:06:54,122 --> 00:06:58,208 This girl who has no lover, who has no friends, 72 00:06:58,209 --> 00:07:02,130 she is he after all and is alone, 73 00:07:03,006 --> 00:07:05,634 alone to do whatever she wants. 74 00:07:06,551 --> 00:07:10,847 And he imagines it in all its ugliness. 75 00:08:18,540 --> 00:08:20,291 She has no lover, 76 00:08:20,458 --> 00:08:22,669 and she says no man shall ever have her. 77 00:09:03,293 --> 00:09:05,962 Her skin is made of man's disillusionment. 78 00:09:06,838 --> 00:09:11,592 Her heart beats down by desires, a body without heat, 79 00:09:11,593 --> 00:09:13,011 a life without breath. 80 00:09:13,887 --> 00:09:16,097 And my soul's eye, I see her acts. 81 00:09:20,393 --> 00:09:24,814 She too is drunk, encircled by an alcoholic lust. 82 00:09:30,070 --> 00:09:35,950 I am drunk on wine, on virtue, on poetry. 83 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:41,414 I am drunk on anything. 84 00:10:16,491 --> 00:10:20,161 Nothing else, real or unreal matters, 85 00:10:21,079 --> 00:10:23,957 thoughts fly, and she is mine. 86 00:12:09,979 --> 00:12:12,190 I go lone as she writhes. 87 00:12:12,690 --> 00:12:14,734 A thing ecstatic in and of itself, 88 00:12:14,984 --> 00:12:16,819 a thing possessed of narcissistic, 89 00:12:16,986 --> 00:12:19,572 in-winding, keen intensity 90 00:12:20,365 --> 00:12:22,242 looking inward to the void. 91 00:12:22,909 --> 00:12:24,285 Pleasure finding nothing. 92 00:12:25,245 --> 00:12:27,622 Feeling something, knowing nothing. 93 00:12:28,581 --> 00:12:30,500 Twisting into discontent. 94 00:13:40,528 --> 00:13:42,572 I am still in pain. 95 00:13:43,406 --> 00:13:45,491 What can she wash away? 96 00:13:45,658 --> 00:13:48,745 The grime and dirt of centuries. 97 00:13:48,911 --> 00:13:51,414 Woman personifies my torments. 98 00:13:51,956 --> 00:13:55,460 She cannot erase the pain that flesh has caused me. 99 00:14:09,432 --> 00:14:11,392 She is a living tomb of flesh. 100 00:14:11,851 --> 00:14:14,228 In her, nothing will grow, 101 00:14:14,812 --> 00:14:16,439 for she is dead. 102 00:14:43,257 --> 00:14:45,467 I will place lilacs in her hair, 103 00:14:45,468 --> 00:14:48,471 and they will wither in the dank perfume of her skin. 104 00:16:18,853 --> 00:16:22,773 Abomination. The curse of all men. 105 00:16:23,024 --> 00:16:28,029 Vicious harbinger of sorrow. All your torments remain. 106 00:17:07,818 --> 00:17:10,112 Time heals nothing. 107 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:15,493 Only dreams remain to bridge the chasm of mountainous ruin. 108 00:17:16,619 --> 00:17:19,789 A liquor sweeter than any alcohol 109 00:17:20,122 --> 00:17:22,458 pervades my subconscious. 110 00:17:22,625 --> 00:17:25,961 And I sleep, dreaming of mystic veils and cushions, 111 00:17:25,962 --> 00:17:28,965 covering and uncovering the glorious female flesh. 112 00:17:30,466 --> 00:17:33,094 In my sleep, in my dreams, 113 00:17:33,928 --> 00:17:35,972 my dreams, 114 00:17:36,138 --> 00:17:37,473 dreams of poetry. 115 00:17:38,349 --> 00:17:43,354 I rise and seek the Father, son of eternal love in poetry. 116 00:17:57,785 --> 00:17:59,370 The love of a woman is the 117 00:17:59,662 --> 00:18:01,831 most beautiful love that mortals can feel. 118 00:18:02,748 --> 00:18:05,376 And you would think this true, Cleon. 119 00:18:05,543 --> 00:18:08,337 If you possessed a truly voluptuous spirit, 120 00:18:08,963 --> 00:18:10,798 but you think only of yourself. 121 00:18:19,432 --> 00:18:22,226 You wasted your nights loving the men who belittle us. 122 00:18:23,144 --> 00:18:25,688 Look at them now, they are ugly. 123 00:18:26,606 --> 00:18:28,983 Compare their heads clipped oval with 124 00:18:29,150 --> 00:18:30,651 our boundless heads of hair. 125 00:18:31,902 --> 00:18:34,155 Do you see our white breasts on their chest? 126 00:18:35,281 --> 00:18:37,658 Alongside their narrow flanks, 127 00:18:38,284 --> 00:18:40,911 consider our luxurious haunches, 128 00:18:41,162 --> 00:18:44,247 a bed deep and hollow for a lover. 129 00:18:44,248 --> 00:18:46,458 And tell me, do they even wish 130 00:18:46,459 --> 00:18:49,545 to have lips supremely voluptuous as ours? 131 00:19:07,229 --> 00:19:09,273 You are sick, Cleon, 132 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,485 but you are a woman who can still fight. 133 00:19:12,902 --> 00:19:15,196 Go to the house of young Styra. 134 00:19:15,613 --> 00:19:18,073 Her cleft is as pink sun, 135 00:19:18,074 --> 00:19:20,659 and she will not refuse you the pleasure 136 00:19:20,660 --> 00:19:22,411 that she herself delights in. 137 00:19:28,876 --> 00:19:31,545 I threw myself into her arms weeping, 138 00:19:32,254 --> 00:19:33,422 and for a long time 139 00:19:33,589 --> 00:19:36,050 she felt my warm tears flow on her shoulder, 140 00:19:37,134 --> 00:19:38,678 until my sadness let me speak. 141 00:19:48,979 --> 00:19:53,901 "Ah, I am only a child. The young men will not look at me. 142 00:19:54,610 --> 00:19:56,070 But when will I, like you, 143 00:19:56,237 --> 00:19:58,363 have the breasts of a young woman 144 00:19:58,364 --> 00:20:01,033 swelling my dress and inviting kisses. 145 00:20:02,326 --> 00:20:03,660 No eyes are interested 146 00:20:03,661 --> 00:20:06,163 if my tunic hangs so straight against my body, 147 00:20:07,415 --> 00:20:10,793 no one picks up a flower that falls from my hair. 148 00:20:11,168 --> 00:20:13,420 No one says it will kill him 149 00:20:13,421 --> 00:20:15,172 if my mouth were given to another." 150 00:20:35,735 --> 00:20:40,405 She replied tenderly, "Bilitis, dear virgin, 151 00:20:40,406 --> 00:20:42,908 you wail like a cat at the moon 152 00:20:43,075 --> 00:20:45,661 and upset yourself without any reason. 153 00:20:46,162 --> 00:20:49,832 The most impatient girls are never chosen first." 154 00:20:57,006 --> 00:20:58,632 She has gone out. 155 00:20:59,175 --> 00:21:02,428 She is far from me, but I see her. 156 00:21:03,679 --> 00:21:05,181 For all things in the room 157 00:21:05,890 --> 00:21:09,977 all tain to her, and I like all the rest. 158 00:21:26,660 --> 00:21:30,581 This bed still warm over which I let my lips wander, 159 00:21:31,332 --> 00:21:34,168 is disordered with the imprint of her form. 160 00:21:35,044 --> 00:21:38,880 Upon this soft cushion is laying her little head 161 00:21:38,881 --> 00:21:41,091 enveloped in its wealth of hair. 162 00:21:42,384 --> 00:21:44,595 This basin is that in which she had bathed. 163 00:21:45,888 --> 00:21:49,141 This comb has penetrated the knots of her tangled locks. 164 00:21:50,476 --> 00:21:53,020 These slippers beg for her naked feet. 165 00:21:54,396 --> 00:21:57,441 These pockets of gauze contained her breasts. 166 00:22:09,787 --> 00:22:12,289 But what I dared not touch 167 00:22:12,456 --> 00:22:15,501 is the mirror in which she gazed upon her poses, 168 00:22:16,544 --> 00:22:18,712 and where perhaps remains still 169 00:22:19,713 --> 00:22:22,091 the reflection of her moist lips. 170 00:22:29,181 --> 00:22:31,267 Why should I paint my lips? 171 00:22:31,851 --> 00:22:33,936 Why should I polish my nails? 172 00:22:34,436 --> 00:22:36,856 Why should I perfume my hair? 173 00:22:54,665 --> 00:22:58,335 Why redden my breasts if they will never entice her? 174 00:22:58,669 --> 00:23:00,546 Why bathe my arms in milk? 175 00:23:01,422 --> 00:23:03,090 They will never embrace her. 176 00:23:30,826 --> 00:23:33,913 How will I sleep? How will I lie in my bed? 177 00:23:35,497 --> 00:23:38,584 This evening my hand does not find her warm hand. 178 00:23:45,966 --> 00:23:49,386 I do not dare anymore to return to my house 179 00:23:49,428 --> 00:23:51,513 and into my empty dreadful room. 180 00:23:52,514 --> 00:23:55,351 I do not dare now to reopen my door. 181 00:23:56,602 --> 00:23:59,313 I no longer dare even to open my eyes. 182 00:24:01,857 --> 00:24:04,818 I am beautiful now a long time, 183 00:24:05,986 --> 00:24:09,073 but the day will come when I will no longer be a woman. 184 00:24:10,157 --> 00:24:14,869 Then I will know torn memories, burning solitary desires 185 00:24:14,870 --> 00:24:17,414 and tears falling on my hands. 186 00:24:33,889 --> 00:24:37,226 If life is a long dream, what good to resist it? 187 00:24:38,394 --> 00:24:41,062 Now four or five times in a night, 188 00:24:41,063 --> 00:24:43,023 I demand the delights of a lover. 189 00:24:43,899 --> 00:24:46,068 And when my flanks are satisfied, 190 00:24:46,443 --> 00:24:48,654 I go to sleep wherever my body falls. 191 00:25:05,212 --> 00:25:10,008 In the morning, I open my eyelids and I shiver in my hair. 192 00:25:10,009 --> 00:25:11,635 There is a dove on my windowsill. 193 00:25:12,886 --> 00:25:14,513 I ask her what month it is. 194 00:25:15,180 --> 00:25:18,642 She says, "It is the month of women in love." 195 00:25:46,503 --> 00:25:49,423 And so this is the month the dove speaks truth. 196 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,217 So I throw up my two arms around my lover, 197 00:25:53,218 --> 00:25:55,344 and trembling wildly, 198 00:25:55,345 --> 00:25:58,557 I stretch my still numb legs toward the foot of the bed. 199 00:26:44,394 --> 00:26:47,189 Believe not that I have ever loved thee. 200 00:26:47,356 --> 00:26:50,233 I have eaten thee as I would a ripe fig. 201 00:26:50,234 --> 00:26:53,444 I have drank thee as I would drink hot water. 202 00:26:53,445 --> 00:26:56,573 I have carried thee about me like a belt of skin. 203 00:26:57,533 --> 00:27:00,535 I have amused myself with thy body 204 00:27:00,536 --> 00:27:04,581 because thou has short hair and breasts upon my chest 205 00:27:04,623 --> 00:27:06,583 and nipples like two little dates. 206 00:27:17,177 --> 00:27:19,887 Just as one must have water and fruit, 207 00:27:19,888 --> 00:27:22,515 a woman is also necessary, 208 00:27:22,516 --> 00:27:25,268 but already I have forgotten my name. 209 00:27:25,269 --> 00:27:27,520 Thou has passed between my arms 210 00:27:27,521 --> 00:27:29,773 like the shadow of another adored one. 211 00:27:40,367 --> 00:27:41,993 Between thy flesh and mine, 212 00:27:41,994 --> 00:27:44,121 a burning dream has possessed me. 213 00:27:44,955 --> 00:27:48,500 I press thee upon me as though upon a wound, 214 00:27:48,667 --> 00:27:50,919 and I cry, "Masadika, 215 00:27:51,211 --> 00:27:53,505 Masadika, Masadika." 216 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,089 Fresh like flowers on my breasts. 217 00:28:36,256 --> 00:28:39,218 How rich you are in voluptuousness. 218 00:28:39,801 --> 00:28:44,806 My breasts in my hands, what lack you of softness, 219 00:28:44,973 --> 00:28:47,476 of mellow warmth and of youthful perfume. 220 00:28:55,776 --> 00:28:59,528 Already you are polished like the breasts of a statue 221 00:28:59,529 --> 00:29:02,324 and hard like the insensible marble. 222 00:29:03,283 --> 00:29:05,743 In order that you may submit, 223 00:29:05,744 --> 00:29:09,706 I will cherish you the more, you that were already loved. 224 00:29:19,549 --> 00:29:24,096 Your sleek and rounder form is the honor of my brown body. 225 00:29:24,554 --> 00:29:27,849 Whether I imprison you under a necklace of gold 226 00:29:28,475 --> 00:29:31,310 or leave you free and naked, 227 00:29:31,311 --> 00:29:33,313 you proceed me with your splendor. 228 00:29:46,535 --> 00:29:48,161 Be then happy this night. 229 00:29:49,329 --> 00:29:51,873 My fingers toy with you in caresses. 230 00:29:53,125 --> 00:29:56,378 You alone will know them until tomorrow morning. 231 00:29:56,837 --> 00:30:01,300 For this night Bilitis has paid Bilitis. 232 00:30:21,111 --> 00:30:22,571 And I resisted. 233 00:30:22,738 --> 00:30:25,615 I said "No, no." I turned my face away. 234 00:30:27,117 --> 00:30:29,161 The kiss did not cross my lips 235 00:30:29,328 --> 00:30:32,372 and passion did not enter my crossed legs. 236 00:30:42,007 --> 00:30:44,176 Now I am alone. 237 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,095 I look at the deserted place. 238 00:30:47,262 --> 00:30:49,973 I clench my fists until they bleed, 239 00:30:51,391 --> 00:30:53,977 and I stifle my sobs in a pillow. 240 00:30:57,397 --> 00:31:00,275 Thou thinks thou lovest me no more, Taleo. 241 00:31:00,817 --> 00:31:03,695 And since a month has passed by nights at table, 242 00:31:04,154 --> 00:31:07,031 as if the fruits, the wines, the honey 243 00:31:07,032 --> 00:31:08,533 could make thee forget my lips. 244 00:31:09,618 --> 00:31:12,578 Thou thinkest that thou lovest me no more. 245 00:31:12,579 --> 00:31:13,413 Poor fool. 246 00:31:15,165 --> 00:31:18,334 Saying that, I untied my moist towel 247 00:31:18,335 --> 00:31:20,586 and rolled it about his head. 248 00:31:20,587 --> 00:31:23,298 It was still all warm with the heat of my body, 249 00:31:24,132 --> 00:31:28,427 the perfume of my skin poured out of its fine meshes. 250 00:31:28,428 --> 00:31:32,015 He breathed with long breath, his eyes closed. 251 00:31:33,558 --> 00:31:36,644 Then I felt that he had returned to me. 252 00:31:36,645 --> 00:31:40,606 And even so clearly his desires reawakened, 253 00:31:40,607 --> 00:31:41,733 and he hid them not. 254 00:31:43,068 --> 00:31:47,279 But as a ruse, I knew how to resist. 255 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:48,864 "No, my friend. 256 00:31:48,865 --> 00:31:51,910 This night, Lysispus possesses me." 257 00:31:53,787 --> 00:31:58,125 Adding as I fled, oh gourmand of fruits and wines, 258 00:31:58,291 --> 00:32:01,586 "The little garden of Bilitis has but one fig, 259 00:32:01,837 --> 00:32:03,171 but it is good." 260 00:33:09,196 --> 00:33:11,864 A hand reaches across the void 261 00:33:11,865 --> 00:33:13,032 and lifts me bodily 262 00:33:13,033 --> 00:33:16,452 from the endless fields of vibrant perfumes 263 00:33:16,453 --> 00:33:18,079 to bring me back to him. 264 00:33:18,914 --> 00:33:21,082 An angel from hell, 265 00:33:21,583 --> 00:33:24,252 a twisted mental hunchback. 266 00:33:25,170 --> 00:33:28,005 He hopes to lead me into his world of sunless days 267 00:33:28,006 --> 00:33:31,842 and down beneath black slimy rivers. 268 00:33:31,843 --> 00:33:36,722 I see his face, the face of the ancient tribes. 269 00:33:36,723 --> 00:33:37,682 The face I hate. 270 00:33:39,100 --> 00:33:44,105 In the gutter lies dirt caked by sewerage. 271 00:33:44,564 --> 00:33:47,359 In the sewerage, his face is reflected, 272 00:33:48,193 --> 00:33:52,489 beneath decaying trash, he and his bedfellows lie. 273 00:33:57,118 --> 00:33:58,370 He is a friend after all. 274 00:33:59,496 --> 00:34:03,708 His eyes, his face a vulgar, decayed with mud and desire, 275 00:34:05,126 --> 00:34:09,046 but his bottle holds riches, fragrant and odorless, 276 00:34:09,047 --> 00:34:10,590 sweet and eternally bitter. 277 00:34:12,509 --> 00:34:13,843 I shall drink. 278 00:34:35,198 --> 00:34:37,742 Neither brain nor senses shall grow soft. 279 00:34:38,618 --> 00:34:42,371 My body's welfare have reserved for Aphrodite's altar. 280 00:34:42,372 --> 00:34:44,665 My body has been consecrated, 281 00:34:44,666 --> 00:34:47,210 and this defilement must now be avenged. 282 00:34:59,097 --> 00:35:02,601 Thy alabaster skin, the phallic mace shall kill. 283 00:35:10,025 --> 00:35:14,613 I destroy all that threatens to separate us, Aphrodite. 284 00:35:15,238 --> 00:35:17,198 I come to thee again and sleep 285 00:35:18,158 --> 00:35:21,036 to things real and beautiful, 286 00:35:21,202 --> 00:35:23,747 to things soft and flowing, to dreams of a goddess's love. 287 00:35:24,289 --> 00:35:27,292 To dreams of a goddess's love. 288 00:35:48,229 --> 00:35:51,106 Antheius, young girl of Lydia 289 00:35:51,107 --> 00:35:53,151 has seven veils upon her. 290 00:37:23,366 --> 00:37:27,829 She loosens the first and her black hair spreads around her. 291 00:37:28,830 --> 00:37:31,082 The second she slides across her mouth, 292 00:37:32,459 --> 00:37:34,252 the third reveals her naked arm. 293 00:37:35,628 --> 00:37:38,631 She separates the fourth veil from her breasts, 294 00:37:39,507 --> 00:37:40,717 and she is nude. 295 00:37:41,885 --> 00:37:43,678 The fifth veil disappears. 296 00:37:44,637 --> 00:37:47,056 The sixth is drawn across her shoulders. 297 00:37:48,224 --> 00:37:49,851 But the last gossamer wisp 298 00:37:50,894 --> 00:37:53,897 she leaves pressed tightly in her female warmth. 299 00:38:03,531 --> 00:38:05,909 Saying, "Where my roses? 300 00:38:07,827 --> 00:38:09,704 Where are my perfume violets? 301 00:38:10,872 --> 00:38:12,957 Where are my tufts of parsley? 302 00:38:14,167 --> 00:38:18,630 Here are my roses, here are my perfume violets. 303 00:38:19,923 --> 00:38:22,258 Here are my beautiful parsley tufts." 304 00:38:31,017 --> 00:38:35,521 "Why am I become lesbian?" Oh, Bilitus, thou asked me, 305 00:38:35,522 --> 00:38:38,273 But what player of the flute is not a lesbian 306 00:38:38,274 --> 00:38:39,317 in some degree. 307 00:38:40,276 --> 00:38:41,819 I am poor. 308 00:38:41,820 --> 00:38:45,615 I have no bed and I lie with her wishes me, 309 00:38:46,449 --> 00:38:49,786 and I thank her with that which I have. 310 00:38:51,162 --> 00:38:54,665 When we are small, we already dance naked. 311 00:38:54,666 --> 00:38:59,378 And what dances? Thou knowest, my dear one. 312 00:38:59,379 --> 00:39:01,548 The twelve desires of Aphrodite. 313 00:39:02,632 --> 00:39:04,466 We look upon each other, 314 00:39:04,467 --> 00:39:06,886 we compare the beauty of our nakedness, 315 00:39:07,762 --> 00:39:09,680 and we find it beautiful. 316 00:39:09,681 --> 00:39:11,390 During the long night, 317 00:39:11,391 --> 00:39:14,227 we are warmed by the pleasure of the lookers-on, 318 00:39:15,270 --> 00:39:17,397 but our ardor is not feigned. 319 00:39:17,939 --> 00:39:19,899 And so strongly do we feel it, 320 00:39:21,192 --> 00:39:23,486 that sometimes behind the doors, 321 00:39:23,945 --> 00:39:27,073 one of us may embrace a companion who can sense. 322 00:39:28,908 --> 00:39:31,995 How do we make love with a man who was rude to us? 323 00:39:32,996 --> 00:39:35,789 He takes us as he would take a woman, 324 00:39:35,790 --> 00:39:38,084 and leaves us before the orgasm. 325 00:39:39,252 --> 00:39:42,213 Thou that art a woman knows what I mean. 326 00:39:43,423 --> 00:39:46,509 Thou canst take it as for thyself. 327 00:39:50,346 --> 00:39:51,848 My hair is black. 328 00:39:53,057 --> 00:39:57,729 The length of my back, and my buttocks small and round. 329 00:39:58,730 --> 00:40:01,481 My tunic is of white wool, 330 00:40:01,482 --> 00:40:04,319 my brown hips enclose the sun. 331 00:40:05,862 --> 00:40:10,324 If I were to live in the city, I would have golden jewels 332 00:40:10,325 --> 00:40:12,952 and tunics of gold and sandals of silver. 333 00:40:14,287 --> 00:40:17,498 I look at my naked feet in their dusty shoes. 334 00:40:19,542 --> 00:40:22,420 Sapphos, come to me, poor darling. 335 00:40:23,379 --> 00:40:26,048 Draw me back to your source. 336 00:40:26,049 --> 00:40:31,054 Wash my feet in your hands, and press olive over violets, 337 00:40:31,137 --> 00:40:33,348 perfuming them with the flowers, 338 00:40:34,515 --> 00:40:38,478 I will perfume all my skin that I may attract lovers. 339 00:40:39,938 --> 00:40:43,107 Upon my beautiful legs in a basin of silver, 340 00:40:44,734 --> 00:40:48,112 I will pour the spikenard of Tarsus, 341 00:40:48,947 --> 00:40:50,615 and metatopian of Egypt. 342 00:40:51,574 --> 00:40:54,035 Under my arms, crushed mint. 343 00:40:55,119 --> 00:41:00,833 Upon my eyebrows and upon my eyes, marjolaine of Kuus. 344 00:41:01,668 --> 00:41:04,086 Slave, take down my hair 345 00:41:04,087 --> 00:41:06,255 and fill it with the smoke of incense. 346 00:41:07,507 --> 00:41:11,093 Behold the old mass of the mountains of Cyprus, 347 00:41:11,094 --> 00:41:14,012 I will let it run between my breasts. 348 00:41:14,013 --> 00:41:17,432 The liquor of roses, which comes from Vacelis 349 00:41:17,433 --> 00:41:20,143 shall embalm my neck and my cheeks, 350 00:41:20,144 --> 00:41:23,147 and come, pour out upon my loins, 351 00:41:24,065 --> 00:41:26,359 the irresistible baccarus. 352 00:41:27,735 --> 00:41:29,111 It's better for a courtesan 353 00:41:29,112 --> 00:41:31,406 that she should know the perfumes of Lydia 354 00:41:32,407 --> 00:41:34,867 than the customs of Peloponneses. 355 00:42:27,128 --> 00:42:31,007 Close softly thine arms around me like a girdle. 356 00:42:31,507 --> 00:42:34,260 Oh touch, touch my skin thus. 357 00:42:35,887 --> 00:42:38,765 Neither water nor the breath of the south wind 358 00:42:38,931 --> 00:42:41,267 are softer than my hand. 359 00:42:41,976 --> 00:42:45,605 Today, you dear me, little sister, it is thy turn. 360 00:42:46,731 --> 00:42:50,234 Remember thou the endearments that I taught thee last night, 361 00:42:51,235 --> 00:42:53,404 and kneel thou near me. 362 00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:57,533 When fatigued kneel thou in silence. 363 00:43:30,191 --> 00:43:33,152 Thy lips descend upon my lips. 364 00:43:34,153 --> 00:43:37,281 All thine undone hair follows them, 365 00:43:37,824 --> 00:43:39,742 as a caress follows a kiss. 366 00:43:41,452 --> 00:43:44,122 Thy locks glide upon my left breast. 367 00:43:45,206 --> 00:43:46,666 They hide thine eyes. 368 00:43:48,251 --> 00:43:49,669 Give me thy hand, 369 00:43:50,878 --> 00:43:52,463 it is hot. 370 00:43:53,381 --> 00:43:55,758 Press mine and leave it not. 371 00:43:56,175 --> 00:43:58,386 Hands better than lips unite, 372 00:43:59,512 --> 00:44:03,099 and their passion is equaled by nothing. 373 00:44:06,894 --> 00:44:11,899 Now untie the ribbons, and the hooks of your tunic. 374 00:44:13,109 --> 00:44:17,029 Cast aside your sandals, the laces up your legs, 375 00:44:17,989 --> 00:44:19,740 and the bindings from your breasts. 376 00:44:20,700 --> 00:44:23,911 Wash the black from your eyes and the red from your lips. 377 00:44:25,204 --> 00:44:27,956 Remove the powder from your shoulders 378 00:44:27,957 --> 00:44:30,293 and uncurl your hair into the water. 379 00:44:33,546 --> 00:44:35,882 For I want you completely pure. 380 00:44:36,841 --> 00:44:38,843 Naked as when you were born. 381 00:44:40,469 --> 00:44:42,096 At the feet of your fertile mother 382 00:44:42,263 --> 00:44:44,265 lying before your virile father. 383 00:44:45,725 --> 00:44:49,352 So chaste that my mere hand on yours 384 00:44:49,353 --> 00:44:51,397 will bring color to your lips. 385 00:44:52,148 --> 00:44:57,320 And that a single word from me whispered under your ears 386 00:44:57,486 --> 00:45:00,823 will cause your upturned eyes to move. 387 00:45:16,088 --> 00:45:19,634 Ah, if I think of her, my throat becomes dry, 388 00:45:20,509 --> 00:45:23,846 my head swims, my breasts harden, 389 00:45:24,472 --> 00:45:26,265 and I'm ill. 390 00:45:26,724 --> 00:45:28,559 I tremble and cry. 391 00:45:29,769 --> 00:45:34,689 If I see her my heart stops, hands tremble, feet freeze. 392 00:45:34,690 --> 00:45:39,320 Pale fire climbs my cheeks. Pain beats in my temples. 393 00:45:40,947 --> 00:45:45,117 If I touch her I am mad, arms stiff and knees weaken. 394 00:45:45,826 --> 00:45:47,119 I faint in front of her 395 00:45:47,286 --> 00:45:51,374 and I lay myself in bed as if I were about to die. 396 00:45:52,792 --> 00:45:56,921 For everything she says to me, I am blessed. 397 00:45:57,630 --> 00:45:59,924 The love of her is torture. 398 00:46:00,132 --> 00:46:03,386 And the passer-byers can hear my cries. 399 00:49:06,861 --> 00:49:10,489 One woman may robe herself in a tunic of white wool, 400 00:49:10,990 --> 00:49:13,534 another dress in a garment of silk and gold. 401 00:49:14,410 --> 00:49:18,330 Another covers herself with flowers, with leaves and grapes. 402 00:49:19,623 --> 00:49:24,295 As for me, I take no joy of life except for naked. 403 00:49:25,629 --> 00:49:28,923 My lover takes me just as I am 404 00:49:28,924 --> 00:49:31,844 without robes or jewels or sandals. 405 00:49:33,012 --> 00:49:37,057 Behold me, Bilitis. Naked, alone. 406 00:49:38,434 --> 00:49:41,312 My hair is black with its own blackness. 407 00:49:42,438 --> 00:49:44,815 My lips are red with their own color. 408 00:49:45,983 --> 00:49:49,987 My locks float about me free and round like feathers. 409 00:49:51,197 --> 00:49:55,201 Take me as my mother made me in a night of love long past. 410 00:49:56,702 --> 00:50:00,915 And if I please you thus, forget not to tell me. 411 00:51:00,015 --> 00:51:02,309 My up-wandering hand upon her tunic 412 00:51:02,643 --> 00:51:04,853 sought to divine the naked body 413 00:51:05,813 --> 00:51:07,982 which is softly bent like waves. 414 00:51:09,191 --> 00:51:13,988 Or arching, stiffened itself with shiverings of the skin, 415 00:51:14,154 --> 00:51:18,200 with her eyes in delirium, she signs toward the bed. 416 00:51:19,451 --> 00:51:22,537 We have not the right to indulge our love 417 00:51:22,538 --> 00:51:24,832 before the ceremony of a wedding. 418 00:51:29,086 --> 00:51:32,756 Delicately with one hand, she opened her blouse, 419 00:51:33,882 --> 00:51:36,594 then held up to me her warm sweet breasts 420 00:51:37,720 --> 00:51:41,056 as one would offer to the gods a pair of living turtledoves. 421 00:51:42,266 --> 00:51:46,228 "Love them well," she said to me, "I love them dearly. 422 00:51:47,521 --> 00:51:50,899 They are my cherished ones, my tiny darlings. 423 00:51:52,192 --> 00:51:55,154 I amuse myself with them when I'm alone. 424 00:51:55,654 --> 00:51:58,699 I play with them and I get pleasure from them. 425 00:51:59,908 --> 00:52:04,288 I splash them with milk. I sprinkle them with flowers. 426 00:52:04,913 --> 00:52:09,543 My delicate hair drawing them is kind to their small tips. 427 00:52:10,002 --> 00:52:14,715 I caress them in shivers. I put them to bed in soft wool. 428 00:52:16,425 --> 00:52:18,927 Since I shall never have children, 429 00:52:19,094 --> 00:52:20,846 you must nourish them, my love. 430 00:52:22,014 --> 00:52:24,558 And since they are so far from my own mouth, 431 00:52:25,517 --> 00:52:27,019 give them kisses for me. 432 00:52:29,063 --> 00:52:34,068 I would kiss the whole length of the rich black locks 433 00:52:34,485 --> 00:52:36,945 that grace thy neck like wings. 434 00:52:37,905 --> 00:52:41,783 Oh, sweet bird. Oh, captured dove. 435 00:52:41,784 --> 00:52:44,411 Whose passion-filled heart beats under my hand. 436 00:52:46,330 --> 00:52:48,999 I would take thy lips between mine own 437 00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:52,961 as a babe takes the breast of its mother. 438 00:52:55,839 --> 00:53:01,345 Sweet one, my kisses reach far and should satisfy thy love. 439 00:53:02,763 --> 00:53:05,724 Lightly will I touch thy breasts and arms 440 00:53:07,059 --> 00:53:09,018 with my tongue and lips, 441 00:53:09,019 --> 00:53:11,938 and behind thine ears and upon thy cheek, 442 00:53:11,939 --> 00:53:14,982 I will leave the marks of my kisses. 443 00:53:14,983 --> 00:53:19,487 And while I kiss thee, my hands shall stray in mad delight 444 00:53:19,488 --> 00:53:23,158 over the ivory nakedness of my sensitive body 445 00:53:23,325 --> 00:53:26,203 trembling under the touch of my nails. 446 00:53:26,829 --> 00:53:28,497 Listen, Masadika, 447 00:53:29,498 --> 00:53:32,458 hear the murmurings of my love in thine ear, 448 00:53:32,459 --> 00:53:35,044 like the wild humming of the sea. 449 00:53:35,045 --> 00:53:38,882 Masadika, thy looks drive me mad. 450 00:53:39,049 --> 00:53:41,802 I will close thy burning eyes with a kiss." 451 00:53:58,902 --> 00:54:03,157 I gasp, and seizing your hands, I twisted them fiercely 452 00:54:03,323 --> 00:54:05,701 into the moist skin beneath my left breast. 453 00:54:06,785 --> 00:54:08,911 I rolled her head back and forth 454 00:54:08,912 --> 00:54:11,582 and her lips moved without speaking. 455 00:54:42,905 --> 00:54:45,865 My excited heart, strong and violent, 456 00:54:45,866 --> 00:54:47,450 beat and beat against my breast 457 00:54:47,451 --> 00:54:50,828 like a satyr caught in brambles, writhing. 458 00:54:50,829 --> 00:54:53,916 She said to me, "Your heart will make you ill." 459 00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:59,588 "Oh Masadika," I replied. "That is not a heart of a girl. 460 00:55:00,047 --> 00:55:05,009 This is a poor bird, a dove that waves his feeble wings. 461 00:55:05,010 --> 00:55:07,386 The heart of a woman is more terrible, 462 00:55:07,387 --> 00:55:09,013 like a patch of myrtle. 463 00:55:09,014 --> 00:55:11,475 It burns in flames beneath the flower foam. 464 00:55:12,351 --> 00:55:15,938 It is there that I am seized by voracious Aphrodite." 465 00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,968 Beneath the gossamer sheet of wool we slipped. 466 00:55:46,343 --> 00:55:50,722 She and I, our heads bent together as though we were one. 467 00:55:51,431 --> 00:55:53,767 And the flame illuminated the sheet beneath us. 468 00:55:58,105 --> 00:56:01,650 And I saw her desirable body in mysterious light. 469 00:56:02,484 --> 00:56:07,114 We were as close as possible to one another, most free, 470 00:56:07,281 --> 00:56:09,950 most intimate, and most naked. 471 00:56:11,326 --> 00:56:14,413 We had loosened our hair to be even more unfettered. 472 00:56:15,330 --> 00:56:17,374 And in the confinement of the bed, 473 00:56:17,541 --> 00:56:22,170 our two female odors mingled, two natural perfumes. 474 00:56:23,338 --> 00:56:27,550 No one in the world, not even the lamp, 475 00:56:27,551 --> 00:56:28,802 saw us that night. 476 00:56:29,970 --> 00:56:32,055 Which of us was loved? 477 00:56:32,222 --> 00:56:37,060 She and I alone can tell, and the men will never know. 478 00:56:44,067 --> 00:56:46,653 Love me not with smiles or with lutes 479 00:56:47,487 --> 00:56:49,864 or with plaited flowers, 480 00:56:49,865 --> 00:56:52,701 but with thy heart and with thy tears. 481 00:56:53,994 --> 00:56:58,123 Even as I love thee with my sorrowing breast and my moans. 482 00:56:59,750 --> 00:57:02,627 When thy breasts alternate with my breasts, 483 00:57:02,628 --> 00:57:05,588 when I feel thy life touch my life. 484 00:57:05,589 --> 00:57:08,382 When thy knees stand up behind me 485 00:57:08,383 --> 00:57:10,968 and my panting mouth knows not more 486 00:57:10,969 --> 00:57:12,763 how to join itself to thine. 487 00:57:18,894 --> 00:57:21,897 See, the lamp has died down, 488 00:57:22,314 --> 00:57:24,191 and the darkness is upon us. 489 00:57:25,484 --> 00:57:28,153 But I press thy moving body, 490 00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:30,989 and I hear thy perpetual plaint. 491 00:57:47,214 --> 00:57:50,217 As we are lying, our eyes closed, 492 00:57:51,885 --> 00:57:54,846 great silence surrounds our bed. 493 00:57:55,973 --> 00:57:58,767 Unforgettable night of the summer. 494 00:58:00,936 --> 00:58:05,816 She begins to speak, "Since you do not hear me. 495 00:58:06,984 --> 00:58:09,027 Oh how I love you." 496 00:58:10,570 --> 00:58:13,699 And she repeats my name, 497 00:58:13,991 --> 00:58:16,618 "Bilitis, Bilitis." 498 00:58:17,869 --> 00:58:19,413 And she touches my skin 499 00:58:19,579 --> 00:58:21,915 with the tips of her trembling fingers. 500 00:58:23,917 --> 00:58:27,129 "This mouth is mine and mine alone. 501 00:58:28,505 --> 00:58:30,799 Is there one more beautiful in the world? 502 00:58:32,634 --> 00:58:35,679 Oh my dear one, my dear one, 503 00:58:36,471 --> 00:58:38,640 these naked arms are mine. 504 00:58:39,558 --> 00:58:41,935 This neck and this hair. 505 00:58:57,743 --> 00:59:00,537 Patterns of reality have disappeared. 506 00:59:00,996 --> 00:59:03,289 Thoughts of others are twisted. 507 00:59:03,290 --> 00:59:07,085 But his soul is cooled by virgin snows. 508 00:59:08,170 --> 00:59:13,175 He sees himself as a lover, bearing flowers to his love. 509 00:59:14,009 --> 00:59:18,138 A girl he has watched so often through his window, 510 00:59:19,097 --> 00:59:21,224 but he has changed her in his mind. 511 00:59:22,184 --> 00:59:26,521 He sees her smiling at himself. A gentle man. 512 00:59:30,859 --> 00:59:33,527 Now I come to you my love. 513 00:59:33,528 --> 00:59:35,906 I come across the labyrinth of time. 514 00:59:40,994 --> 00:59:43,121 I come to bring you flowers for your hair. 515 01:00:10,273 --> 01:00:13,443 I dream of Venus and of your vision. 516 01:00:13,985 --> 01:00:16,404 And it becomes a reality, 517 01:00:16,696 --> 01:00:19,699 our flesh becomes one. 518 01:01:05,245 --> 01:01:08,289 His twisted mind sees his loved one, 519 01:01:08,290 --> 01:01:13,295 sees her smile, and erases out the horror of reality. 520 01:07:32,757 --> 01:07:35,760 Your kisses and the way you curl, 521 01:07:36,761 --> 01:07:39,346 delicious and distracting girl. 522 01:07:39,347 --> 01:07:42,307 Into one's arms and roundabout, 523 01:07:42,308 --> 01:07:45,311 inextricably in and out, 524 01:07:46,187 --> 01:07:49,481 turning luxuriously as twine 525 01:07:49,482 --> 01:07:51,734 the clasping tangles of the vine. 526 01:07:52,569 --> 01:07:57,115 So loving to be loved, so gay and greedy for our holiday, 527 01:07:58,241 --> 01:08:01,201 strong to embrace and long to kiss 528 01:08:01,202 --> 01:08:03,413 and strenuous for the sharper bliss. 529 01:08:04,622 --> 01:08:07,542 A little tossing sea of sighs 530 01:08:07,709 --> 01:08:10,878 to the slow calm seals up your eyes. 531 01:08:11,546 --> 01:08:14,923 And then how prettily you sleep. 532 01:08:14,924 --> 01:08:18,010 You nestle close and let me keep my strained fingers 533 01:08:18,011 --> 01:08:21,097 in the nest of your most comfortable breast. 534 01:08:22,307 --> 01:08:25,184 And as I dream, lying awake, 535 01:08:25,602 --> 01:08:28,770 of sleep well wasted for your sake, 536 01:08:28,771 --> 01:08:32,649 I feel the very pulse and heat of your young lifeblood, 537 01:08:32,650 --> 01:08:35,445 beat and beat with mine. 538 01:08:36,404 --> 01:08:38,990 And you are mine, my sweet.