As I Have Loved You

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  1. This is an anecdote from The Book of Songs by Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (897-971 CE), the most famous collection of anecdotes from pre-Islamic Mecca, Medina, Damascus and Baghdad:

    “A friend went to visit the poet Muti Ibn Iyas and found, under him, a young man he was fucking, and on top of Muti was a young man fucking him, as if he were in a wardrobe or a litter. So he said to the poet: ‘What is this, O Muti?’ The poet replied: ‘This is the pleasure doubled’.”

    Muti anticipated Rumi (1207-73) by several centuries in doubling his quest for pleasure and knowledge, and thereby discover himself!

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