“If I had you in bed with me, twenty times in a row I would prove my passion to you. That the eleven thousand virgins punish me if I lie.”
The Eleven Thousand Rods (1907) – Guillaume Apollinaire
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The Eleven Thousand Rods (French: Les Onze Milles Verges) is a 1907 erotic novel by Apollinaire. The title is a pun on the legend of Saint Ursula and her eleven thousand handmaidens. The pun works better in French where vierge means virgin and verge means rod. The painting on the cover of the French edition shown above looks like something by Ingres, but is it?
Is this a test? i hope I have paid enough attention to make the grade:-)
My best guess ( if I’m wrong, you’ll remove 3 points from the weighted amount for this section of the test?) here goes…. are these gals two odalisques from Ingres’ Turkish bath?
The quote is great…. i must show it to “Rumpole”, get him to repeat it, and then hold him to prove what he just said:-) Works for me!
Hey Suburban,
You passed the test (the teacher did not know the answer), it is indeed a detail from the 1862 The Turkish Bath.
Who is Rumpole?
Jan
Jan – “Rumpole” is my significant other, life partner -a real wise guy!
As to passing the test – I occasionally pay attention. Sometimes things stick enough.:-0
The painting reminds me of one of Paul Laurenzi: http://www.erosconnexion.com/galerie/paullaur/page2a.htm