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…on better than learning. XXXV ZAMZEM1 These holy talks and scriptures, truth to tell, Are foul to taste as Mecca’s holy well. Give me my boy’s narcissus waist to hold, His jasmine podex2 to my raptured smell, His rosy lips and coralline to kiss — Well saith the sage that youth’s sole heaven is hell ! A thousand times a night the Fatihah3 Did I recite — my member did not swell. Once for a night I slept with my Habib — A thousand times that member rose and fell !4 Love and not worship is the key of life ; Silence, not prayer, the universal spell.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 110
…is penis with his hands. The length of the swing should not be less than 4 or 5 feet ; under these rules the game is excel- lent. With a boy it would however be incomparably more difficult, if not impossible. The text suggests though that the boy is fixed, while the man swings. This should be easier of execution.
1910 · PDF PAGE 86
…se the compassion of Allah, who made men evil that He and they might rejoice together at the end.5 It is indeed the fact, O gazelle-eyed boy, that thy podex is excessively wide ; but my member can fill it, pressing in to its length till the sun and moon are at rest upon the snow-hills. This (thou wilt remember) was not the case before thou didst for- sake me. Thou mayest doubtless ask shy, if such were the case, I did not cause thee to be violently enlarged by the eunuchs with divers fruits.6 ’Twould have given thee more pain, O boy of buttocks…
1910 · PDF PAGE 54
…ughout 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 text] (mist) also means a worm in Arabic and the passage implies that all Arabs have tape-worms ! ” As is well known, they pay re- spect to Abu Bekr and Omar, and make things very hot for the ’Arami every year at Mecca. The dragon is of course the universal one ; Rahu in India ; Caput Draconis and…
1910 · PDF PAGE 128
…er’s beams. It hath a magic spell, men say, To guard him from deceitful dreams. Nor while thy podex grips my tool Canst thou deceive me, boy, it seems.1 If other thoughts invade my heart, Of thee my heart but lightly deems. As he who worships Allah2 knows, His Teacher light the fool esteems Whose mind is occupied with sense — And how the crowd of senses teems !3 But El Qahar doth love ; collects Into one ocean all the streams.4 1. This is the Rabelasian jest — the story of Hans Carvels ring — in Eastern dress. 2. Again a confusion. He refers to…
1910 · PDF PAGE 99
…content to wait.3 The Zahid-sage is bound by dogma’s chain, Looks up and worships—let the donkey prate ! The wine-drawer and his beloved boy Unite above in the ecstatic state. Nor doth the Sufi need a heaven in Heaven :— Earth’s heaven to who hath God to heart for mate ! And if at first thy virgin podex bled4— He smiteth, for He is compassionate ! O Zahid, hear thou El Qahar5 the wise : “ By love hate ends ; hate never ends by hate.”6 1. They who worship Allah give pleasure to themselves, but He profiteth not at all there- by. [Mahbub’s comment…
1910 · PDF PAGE 83
The First Joy of Union. 75 XVI THE JASMINE-JAR I am a bearded and a turbaned sar ;1 Thou art a boy more lovely than a star. Thou art mine own ; I beat thee sore indeed : More than thy beauty do I love the scar. I mocked thee, shamed thee. Men despise thee now. Well, it is well ! they come no more to mar Our loves ; we’ll wing through universal space, Borne in the moon’s chryselephantine car. Nor shall the bounds of heaven nor the walls Of Allah’s house to love be bond or bar.2 Nor shall the Thee make mischief with the Me, The Near be interrupte…
1910 · PDF PAGE 133
…rnelle idole. Worship the penis ; rub it on the forehead, and so on, according to your ideas of what a ritual should be. 11. The Naughty Boy. Smack the penis smartly with the hands. After- wards make up to it, and pet it. 12. The Sculptor. Mould and knead with firm lips and fingers, as a sculptor models clay. 13. The catapult. Pull down the penis, and let it flap back against the belly. 14. The Metronome. (for two patients) With thumb and forefinger at the root of the pe- nis guide it, swinging it to and fro from mouth to mouth, one lover being…
1910 · PDF PAGE 72
…e 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 come to me, Habib ! I will cherish thee…
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The Peace, the Jealousy, and the Ecstasy of God. 81 XVIII THE TRYST There are no degrees in Allah, O boy with ears1 like new moons ! and there is no degree in the ex- cellence of thy podex ; nor is the joy of thy lover, when he delights therein, from day to day dimi- nished or increased. This is the sigillum of perfection in any work. The perfect lover is calm and equable ; storms of thunder, quakings of the earth, losses of goods, punishment from great men, none of these things cause him to rise from his divan, or to remove the silken tube of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 11
…hey begin by casting dirt at my people for their bad life, and end by spitting upon my beard, bidding me procure for them a fat and fair boy : but the Asylum of the World, who lives like a great prince and a fakir (mean- ing : “ You have illimitable resources, but are ab- stemious ”) really understands the ‘ hikmat-i-
1910 · PDF PAGE 65
The Results of Sin. 57 wineskin ; in three years thou wilt be as foul as thy Nubian. Come into my garden, boy ! with true love and pure, with open air and swift riding thou mayest regain thy beauty. Then wilt thou be grateful to El Qahar, and faithful, if thou canst be faithful. The camel that hath learnt to bite furiously8 — only Allah and the muzzle9 avail. 1. [Persian text] : Hakim — doctor, not to be confused with [Persian text] Hakim — official. 2. Wolf’s Tail — the false dawn or Zodiacal Light. 3. One M.S. omits the sentence, and finishes…
1910 · PDF PAGE 102
… i.e. with a circular motion. The art of working the hips in coition, called by the Romans Ars Cris- sandi (Ars Cevendi in the case of a boy. Ed.) is in the East as complex and profound as that of mu- sic. It requires as much study as theology, and much practice as billiards. 4. An hardly obvious analogy. Boccoccio’s use of it is a curious coincidence. 5. Persia. Not to be confused with [Persian text] Iram, the legendary Paradise which Sheddad ibn ‘Ad is said to have established somewhere in Ara- bia. 6. That is, God has delivered the Means of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 33
… to use a somewhat discredited but useful term. Why, in short, (quoth Mr. Moses Monometallist) loving women as you do, sir, do you go to boys and men ? Is it only for variety ? If not, in what does the charm consist ? I will enumerate the conditions, and that cheer- fully, since it will incidentally enable me to justify that very remarkable phrase used above, the spiri- tuality of Sodomy. A woman can afford two pleasures to a man, which a boy cannot : namely : (1) the pleasure of the cunnilinge. (2) common copulation. (both these either with or…
1910 · PDF PAGE 43
…ughter of Antinous ” or F....’s “ the splendid Syrian youth with scarlet mouth Standing upon the summit of the world ? ” Why, to kiss my boy is a canzonet, to suck him off a sonnet ; his mouth is a madrigal, his lips are lyrics, and his eyes idylls ; to be be-
1910 · PDF PAGE 38
…oselytize : many are called, but few chosen ; a sodomite is born, not made ; you can’t make a silk sodomite out of an English groc- er’s boy ; one sodomite doesn’t make a scan- dal ; take care of the boys, and the girls will take care of themselves ; strike while the tool is hot ; don’t bugger in haste, or withdraw at lei- sure ; a turd in the hand is worth two in the bush ; a prick in time saves nine ; it’s a wise Wilde that knows his own Q. ; one good turn deserves another ; frig wise and fuck foolish ; there’s better boys in the choir than e…
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28 With sodomy, too, no children come, to cloud one’s love with cares rivals to my wife. Nothing can intervene between my boy and me but the slow foot of change, for sodomites are mortal ; but that im- mortal longing in them which is À±¹´µÁÇÃĵ¯Ç—That twins them with the Lord of Resurrection ; and even as I plunge my member in the sarcophagus, the flesh-eater, the podex of my lover, and with- draw it, its strength renewed as the eagle’s, so do I know that when the Eater of all flesh devours me altogether, I shall arise in my strength, through t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 12
4 Introduction Illahi ’and will not jest if I myself bring to him the treasure of Iran. What, I exclaimed, you mean to bring me a boy without asking ? and dissolved in laughter. He stammered, with the shamed smile of the Oriental, that he had a sacred and secret book treating of the ‘ hikmat ’ but that it was never shown to anyone but a Sufi of great and exception- al sanctity — such as “ the Protector of the Poor, my father and mother, who glances at the earth in the hot season, and the fields are immediately tall and green.” Me. The MS., prod…
1910 · PDF PAGE 35
…vise. That is, it is not a physical,9 but a spiritual pleasure. I tell thee, as I walk the sunsmitten streets of Mandalay, where lives a boy I love, that the very foundation of the soul tremble as mine eyes fall upon him. I have never spoken to him ; I doubt if I could command myself to speak to him. Have I faced death in a hundred forms, and never winced, to fear (at last)10 the frown of a Nubian slave ? Strange, friend monometallist ! But true !
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…more chance to hold your love. I had heaven in your kisses, and I went to seek it in the cloister.11 I loved you al- ways ; it was but a boy’s folly ; forgive me ! I may never cling to you on earth again : pray God that Heaven may be one long, long life of such bliss as we had of one another long ago by yon slow stream on whose banks I have wandered (many a time since) crying like a lost soul concerning you in the words of Milton lamenting his beauteous- buttocked Lycidas “ Oh ! who hath reft my dearest pledge ? ” Alas ! neither Fate nor God co…