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"Those who utilized an astrolabe to tell the time and pattern for love failed to articulate for us which of the two halves is lawful -halal- for the woman-beloved in the body of the man-lover. At that moment we know not who kindles the body and who quenches, who is the ember and who is the air".

"And it was said she was queen of djinns who (...) gave herself to one man, so he took her. Then he passed his spirit into every passerby, every resident, every coward who ever concealed his love for a woman, exposing every woman hiding her infatuation for someone other than her husband".

Intensidad Y barbarie. Qué pasada.

Mira, algo que no me esperaba en un poemario de Bahréin inspirado en una historia clásica árabe de amor del siglo VII es una escena TAN similar a la escena de la cocina de Nueve semanas y media. La vida te da sorpresas, sorpresas te da la vida.

Quivering, this earth.
Where can I put down my foot?

What we’ve become, we can’t escape.

Flames arose
on every side and heat was born anew in the blaze of memory, just
as wind reddens the smoking embers.