[…] But when I had bestridden the plank, quoth I to myself, Thou deserveth all that betideth thee. All this is decreed to me of Allah (whose name be exalted!), to turn me from my greed of gain, whence ariseth all that I endure, for I have wealth galore.

There really is no other purpose for wearing a pasty than to avoid being arrested for indecency.

It was written with a typewriter and contains the announcement “the writer of the within is not a matinee girl, merely an observer of men and things.” It is a gamble, however, that the observer is an observeress.

Thou that day / Thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare