Tag Archives: Thomas Wright

turn out your love light

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Dave

…Upon finishing The Arabian Nights, Richard Francis Burton began to work on a new edition of The Perfumed Garden of the Cheikh Nefzaoui, an Arabic manual on the art of love, a sort of complementary tome to the “literal” eroticism … Continue reading →

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burton and the polygamy riddle

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Dave

…The Mormons at this time were considered a great curiosity in England. Since the murder of Joseph Smith in Illinois in 1844, and the subsequent dramatic exodus to the desert isolation of the great inland sea, the sect had flourished … Continue reading →

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manifestly not the third

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Dave

Sir Richard Francis Burton. Explorations, eccentric tastes, and an ever-watchful wife… Burton had often said “he required two, and only two qualities in a woman, namely beauty and affection.” He had also written that he admired them “soft-bending and relaxed.” … Continue reading →

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odd couple: moons and mountains and source of the matter

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Dave

Captain Sir Richard Burton and the “Speke-easy” … Burton went to Africa in late 1858 with the thirty year old John Speke, who had been wounded with him in Somaliland. This was to prove a disastrous choice. Speke was a … Continue reading →

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POMPEII NIGHT TRIPPER : Don’t Disturb Sign Between the Ruins

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Dave

I took a midnight walk in the ruins /Guess I was looking for your face /I felt a chill in the air/ I knew then I was in the right place/ Turned over a blue stone just to see what … Continue reading →