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CURIOSITIES OF THE PLEASURE DOME
by Robert Elliot Fox Pleistocene truffles—a flute carved from the thigh bone of a yeti taken in heat—a fount for self-contemplation filled with water from the pool Narcissus gazed into—three poems by Sappho in holograph—assorted recipes from the kitchens of Alexander the Great—an alphabetical list of the women in King Solomon's harem with marginal annotations (in an unattributable hand) detailing their respective skills—half a cask of wine salvaged from Noah's ark—a dildo fashioned out of diamond—a wall hanging made from the tattooed skin of the last gladiator—nine pubic hairs supposed to be Lilith's—graffiti from the walls of Sodom and Gomorrah—a sketch of Yahweh's backside based on the mutterings of Moses in his sleep—unguents guaranteed to induce both invisibility and unlimited orgasm—ganja gathered from the hills of Shangri-La—the original whangdangdoodle—a clockwork cunt from Atlantis—five hundred haikus composed by a poet while walking the Great Wall of China backwards—a rough draft of the Thirteenth Commandment—half an ounce of an improbable herb left behind by visiting aliens—a garden of carefully cultivated phalluses—a gossamer from the wing of the angel Jacob wrestled with—a fragment of the last stone laid in the construction of the Tower of Babel—the eye of Polyphemus—Odysseus' logbook—petrified dung of a minor devil—several examples of semi-successful attempts to realize the Philosopher's Stone—the manuscript of Kyd’s Hamlet—an illustrated guide to Gondwanaland—a sunth of Mondays. |
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