Mar
31
2006
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“Jokanaan, I am amorous of thy body! Thy body is white like the lilies of a field that the mower has never mowed. Thy body is white like the snows that lie on the mountains, like the snows that lie on the mountains of Judća, and come down into the valleys. The roses in the garden of the Queen of Arabia are not so white as thy body. Neither the roses of the garden of the Queen of Arabia, nor the feet of the dawn when they light on the leaves, not the breast of the moon when she lies on the breast of the sea…There is nothing in the world so white as thy body. Let me touch thy body.”
-Salome addressing Jokanaan in Oscar Wilde's Salome
-Salome addressing Jokanaan in Oscar Wilde's Salome
