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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 (of 10)

Note 400 — Terminal Essay. (continued 3)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

The reader of The Nights has remarked how often the “he” in Arabic poetry denotes a “she”; but the Arab, when uncontaminated by travel, ignores pederasty, and the Arab poet is a Badawi.

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