Thursday, November 6, 2008

Camille Pissarro Jardin Mirbeau aux Damps painting

Camille Pissarro Jardin Mirbeau aux Damps paintingJoaquin Sorolla y Bastida UNA INVESTIGACIoN paintingBenjamin Williams Leader The Wengen Alps Morning In Switzerland painting
snootiest of all, "Ramlah", whose namesake, the eleventh wife of Mahound, was the daughter of Abu Simbel and Hind. And there was a "Zainab bint Jahsh", and a "Juwairiyah", named after the bride captured on a military expedition, and a "Rehana the Jew", a "Safia" and a "Maimunah", and, most erotic of all the whores, who knew tricks she refused to teach to competitive "Ayesha": the glamorous Egyptian, "Mary the Copt". Strangest of all was the whore who had taken the name of "Zainab bint Khuzaimah", knowing that this wife of Mahound had recently died. The necrophilia of her lovers, who forbade her to make any movements, was one of the more unsavoury aspects of the new regime at The Curtain. But business was , too, was a need that the courtesans fulfilled.
By the end of the first year the twelve had grown so skilful in their roles that their previous selves began to fade away. Baal, more myopic and deafer by

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