Palestinians

"this impure race, fleeing before the sword of sesostris, or the exterminating knife of the jews, had found itself driven to the sea and taken the coast for its country. only the unrestrained licentiousness of the modern malabar compares with the abominations with these sodoms of phoenicia. generations of uncertain lineage overran that place, noone knowing his father's identity, giving birth, multiplying randomly, like the indigenous insects and reptiles, which, after a rainstorm, swarm over their burning shores. they even spoke of themselves as born of slime"

- michelet, histories of the roman empire

wos that about - Cochin Jews?

amazing!

xpost

yeah funny that (kingdom of) israel never included the gaza strip

he's talking about the carthaginians who - defeated by rome - fled to phoenicia

apropos of nothing, just came across it in some reading and i thought it was awesomely LOL

"on the contrary what i like about the orient is a certain unselfconscious grandeur and harmoniousness of disparate things. i recall having seen a bather who on his left arm had a silver bracelet and on the other a vesicatory. this is the true orient, and consequently, the poetic one as well: rag-bedecked scoundrels covered in vermin. if you leave them alone, these vermin form golden arabesques in the sun"

- flaubert, correspondences, volume 3, pp 136-137

michelet was a big influence on flaubert. i'm reading about "salammbo".

the phoenecians were pretty slick

malabar is Phoenicia ?!?!??!!

"you tell me kuchuk jhanem's bugs degrade her in your eyes. for me they were the most enchanting touch of all. their noxious odor mixed with the smell of her skin which was dripping in sandalwood oil. i want there to be a bitter taste to everything, always a jeer in the midst of our triumphs, and a desolation to our enthusiasm. which reminds me of Jaffa, where, on entering the city, i smelled an odor at once of lemon trees and cadavers. in the ruined cemetary, half-rotted skeletons lay uncovered while green bushes dangled their golden fruit over our heads. don't you feel the completeness of such poetry, that it is the great synthesis?" - flaubert, same letter

no, he's saying "the only modern comparison to the pervertedness of these phoenicians, which i will also compare to sodom, would be malabar"

some wicked perverse malomar action round my end, ugetme

"jerusalem is a charnel house surrounded by walls. everything there is rotting; the dead dogs in the streets, the religions in the churches: there is a great deal of shit and many ruins lying about ... the holy sepulcher is the agglomeration of all possible curses." - flaubert, bruneau correspondence volume i pg 665

"in another brothel we screwed some tolerable greek and armenian women" - ibid pg 730

there is a great line by, er, somebody, about how the world would be a much better place if Jerusalem had in the past had a functioning lunatic asylum.

there's another line by, er, somebody that I like:

"I may not know much about art, but I know what I like. I'm not a complete palestine, you know."

http://64.233.183.104/search?&q=%22I%27m+not+a+complete+palestine%22

The man who is now Ireland's leader once said that he wished to turn Temple Bar into "Dublin's West Bank".

he succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.