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Pierre Louÿs · 1894
Mitchell-Strong (1904) translation is PD; pseudo-Sapphic prose-poems with explicit register.
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What this book knows
Desire between women — tender, embodied, and sacred — is the oldest and most honest form of passion.
embodiment
His chest presses against my breasts. My heart throbs.... he clasps me so vigorously that he bruises me; but when he is within me I know nothing.
THESO-RC-015More than her balls or her doll, I am for her a game. With all parts of my body, she amuses herself like a child, through the long hours, without speaking.
THESO-RC-021desire
In the secret of thy body, it is thou, Mnasidika, beloved, who hidest the cave of the nymphs of which old Homer spoke.
THESO-RC-020The women united and found among themselves consolation — those delicate loves which have, whatever men may think, more of true passion than invoked viciousness.
THESO-RC-003religion-and-sex
About a phallos crowned, an hundred women rocked, shrieking... when the crimson phallos had been plunged in the Unique Triangle, the mystery commenced.
THESO-RC-030O Night, who givest birth to the Gods! how warm thou art in my hair! how thou enterest into me now, and how I feel myself pregnant with all thy springtime!
THESO-RC-029Illuminates
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