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1910 · PDF PAGE 50

The Scented Garden

…al Basis of Spiritual Sensation The Servitors of Beelzebub ALCANOR — A light-flash. Perhaps bird-like — swallow or dove. AMATIA — A very black snake, wormy and wriggly. BILIFARES — A great toad with a black head. LAMARION — A donkey-headed beast the size of a spaniel, with a long twisted tail. DIRALISEN — A snake with six feet. Its head is like that of an enormous ferret, and the eyes very red. LICAMEN — A very small long-eared monkey. DUNIRAG — Like a sheep with the mange. It has straight horns and four black legs : the wool is in knots and pa…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 68

The Scented Garden

60 The Reproaches of God. X. The Black Stone I have kissed the black stone of the Ka’abah,1 O Habib ! but a thousand times the black mole upon thy buttocks. I have seen a thousand men kiss the black stone of the Ka’abah ; but I hear that the pilgrims to thy house are even more numerous than the Hujjaj.2 Omar3 was an ass ; but he is buried—Allah curse him ! — at El Medinah ; only those with members like an ass find any permanent resting place in thy mosque. His4 member is firmer than a rock, sayest thou ? But I will bottle and drown him.5 It is …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 51

The Scented Garden

The Spiritual Basis of Spiritual Sensation. 43 BILICO — Skeleton in front of Set Beast’s face. TROMES — An enormous black beetle with lobster- like mandibles. BALFORI — A 7-pointed white star, with one point very long. AROLEN — Enormous green locust. ICROCHI — A Cat’s head, a dachshund’s body, a long tufted tail. Browny-yellow, dead-looking. NOMINON — A large red spongy jellyfish with one greenish luminous spot. Like a nasty mess. IAMAI — A small light crested yellow bird, iridescent under the throat. AROGOR — A black vulture with human ears, a…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 54

The Scented Garden

46 The Innocence and Reputation of Man. za) on your face ? In order to stick a Ghazi to your bottom ! ” 3. Black-violet : so in text [Persian text]. A black mole, in Sufi cipher, means the “ point of in- divisible unity.” But El Haji more scandalously and obviously chooses the podex itself throughout most of his masterpiece. 4. Friday. This appears at first sight an obvious misreading. But (if you please) Mahbub says : “ When a boy opens his podex, the hairs depart one from another like true believers quitting the mosque on Friday. [Persian tex…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 5

The Scented Garden

…........... 52 VIII. — The Whore .................................... 54 IX. — The Hakim ................................... 56 X. — The Black Stone ........................... 60 XI. — Aziz .............................................. 62 XII. — The Apples ................................... 64 XIII. — The Blind Beggar .......................... 66 XIV. — The Comparisons .......................... 68 XV. — The Complaisances ....................... 72 XVI. — The Jasmine-Jar .......................... 75 XVII. — The Complaints .................…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 112

The Scented Garden

…ve ’ ; The ‘ Sweetitwas ’ and ‘ Werecall ’, the ‘ Pitytis ’ and ‘ Mighthavebeen ’4 These founder in the rushing tide, these bear a cargo black with fear, Heavy with hate and dull with woe, a miserable load of teen : While we the ‘ Jolly Roger ’5 sail whose freight is fairy6 pearls of dew ; The podex and the member locked, without a bar, without a screen. Remembrance and regret we quash ; we banish traitor hope and fear ; The present ecstasy is all, the Middle Path, the Golden Mean. An He endure, then love endures : — so El Qahar will ever sing,…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 52

The Scented Garden

…ellow spots. It hath a rat-tail, very long. PELLIPIS — Like a red flaming tapering Rod, with notches at the thick end. NATALIS — A small black gnome. In his left hand is a grey pedestal surmounted by a white pyra- mid. NAMIROS — Is formless, like a flood of yellow light more brilliant than the Sun. ADIRAEL — A very large gold fish with an enormous head. KABADA — Is a fat frog, erect, with a green white chest. KIPOKIS — A small figure, fox-headed, extending its left hand. ORGOSIL — A very dark and very large tortoise. ARCON — A smallish nude hum…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 160

The Scented Garden

…of Ahwar al Ayn, our Western “ Houri.” Literally, one whose eye is intensely white, i.e. the conjunctiva ; while the cornea is perfectly black. 6. ‘ Attar ’ [Persian text] a druggist. “ Attar of roses ” (corrupted to “ Otto of Roses ”) is all non- sense. The word meant in Atr [Persian text] per- fume.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 72

The Scented Garden

…ess is now become a red roughness ; he is spotted like a leper. He is no more fit for the desire of a clean man ; even his seducers, the black-skinned swine ! having found a boy with tulip cheeks and coralline ; and a bosom of jessamine ; and eye- brows like Karenian3 bows for beauty of line ; and breath like wine ; and buttocks fair and firm and fine ; and a podex like a 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 co…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 53

The Scented Garden

… Samarkand, Bukhara and Baghdad ; for rich men and men of war,2 princes and amirs, wise men and even holy mullahs, hav- ing heard of the black-violet3 mole upon thy but- tocks, cannot endure the sweet pain, and lay all their homage below those twin crescents, thy curv- ing feet, like the tusks of a young elephant. But no crone in Shiraz can seduce thee, O vir- tuous one ! Thou openest, it is true, thy podex, which appears like the sun through a dissolving mist upon Friday,4 but it is only to admit the dra- gon of El Qahar. Then there is an ecli…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 96

The Scented Garden

…answered by any sum from a halfpenny upwards. 2. Kaffur means Camphor, white wax, and is a lucus a non lucendo insult given to unusually black slaves. 3. Though both Mohammedans and Jews are circumcised, there is a difference in the technique of the operation which would enable an expert to tell at a glance to which religion a man belonged. It is alleged by some that the toughening and har- dening of the glans penis which results from the operation predisposes to sodomy, inasmuch as a greater intensity of friction is required to produce emissio…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 76

The Scented Garden

…of night — for we were excessively drunk, Habib ! — But yesterday we laughed even louder when my women veiled thee as to thy face with a black veil, and Laila cried : “ Allah be praised, the Concealer, that He hath permitted us to conceal the podex of this pig.” Thou didst not laugh, O spoiler of sport ! Nor did the rattans of the eunuchs move thee to mirth, falling like the first hard rain of summer upon thy back, and upon thy buttocks, and upon

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1910 · PDF PAGE 41

The Scented Garden

…hile your admiring friends openly boast of you as a dam clever bugger, by God ! He had half the boys in London, and when they started to black- mail him, he turned right round like that (gesture) before you could say “ knife ”, by God ! and didn’t they get beans, by God ! But could I fight an English election ? How would my chiefs in the army look at it, when it came to the actual point of choosing one of two men for promotion ? What price that fat tutor- ship ? There are dozens of weak innocent fools in Lon- don at this hour who, making these …

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