There is a marriage in Cana of Galilee. And a paralyzed man at the pool at Bethesda. Do not have contempt for my misfortune, you who are at ease. And you who put a stumblingblock before the blind. My lover is made whole this very hour.

I am the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valleys. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

I weepeth sore in the night. My tears are on my cheeks. Among all my lovers none can comfort me.

Water. The rising to newness. Wine. Humanity.

The gathering of manna.

You can be beautiful anywhere.

Dolphin. Salvation. The dolphin was said to rescue shipwrecked sailors by carrying them on its back to safety.

Jonah.

The History of Susanna.

The young Daniel appeared and asked, Under what tree sawest thou them companying together? One elder answered, Under a mastick tree. And the other, Under an holm tree.

Susanna commendatio animae.

Jezebel was a harlot when she painted her face and tired her hair and looked out at a window.

St. Matthew inspired by the Holy Spirit, and in Myrna the city of nakedness and cannibalism.

And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away.

Roses and apples Dorothea. In the garden of her heaven. At the moment of her death.

Toads.

Dog. The howling of a dog portends death. Black dogs are the familiars of witches. A dog baying at the moon signifies the foolish man despising higher things.

Wist ye not that I am about my father’s business?

Dives, and Lazarus in Abraham’s bosom.

Tell Hum. I am Jairus’ daughter. I am not dead. I am only sleeping. My lover whispers, Talitha cumi.

The sower Arepo holds carefully the wheels. When accused of deceit, Ananias fell dead. Sapphira, on being told what had happened, also fell dead.

Chemuel wrestles with Jacob.

The Slaughter of the Innocents.

The salt have lost its savour.

Condemned to violation by apes are the women who refused their husbands their marital rights. The ape, like the monkey, symbolizes drunkenness because in its antics it resembles an intoxicated man. The female apes are lascivious and tempt the males by displaying their buttocks, thus they symbolize prostitutes or highly sexed women. Female apes who bare twins are said to love one more than the other and if pursued will escape up a tree with the favourite, abandoning the other to the hunter.

Apple of the eye. Daughter of the eye.

The eunuch Potiphar had Joseph’s trust. Joseph was a handsome man and soon attracted the attentions of Potiphar’s wife. Potiphar’s wife was peeling oranges when she first caught sight of Joseph and was so overcome by his beauty that she cut her finger. The blood stained the fruit and that is why today there are blood oranges.

When two will make only one, when outside will be like inside, and when there will be neither male nor female.

The ox and the ass. The ox knows his owner and the ass his master.

A mess of pottage. A dish of lentil soup. A smooth man. A hairy man and a hunter.

Eleven-hundred silver shekels. Tie me with seven new bow strings. And weave into the warp of a web seven locks of my hair. Dagon.

If I am reborn, bald, bearded and hunchbacked.

In my dream I held a goldfinch and heard the voices of Dismas and Gestas.

Esther means star in Persian.

The white rat is day. The black rat is night. Gnawing rats are the passage of time.

Gog and Magog.

Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin.

The separation of the sheep from the goats.

Hath the rain a father?

My soul is among lions. I went through fire and through water.

Sorridere. Sorridere.

There are no flowers here. There is the dandelion, of course, but no daisy. How does your garden grow, I asked the fox, as she lay on her back, with her mouth open, pretending to be dead. Just as the Devil lies in wait to trap the unwary, I never run straight ahead, she said, but always follow a tortuous path.

When you have such contempt for something, and for so long and so deeply, you naturally begin to feel superior to it—and worse, that you understand it. Eventually you begin to deny it, to ignore it; you work without it; you do something else.

They point at me and scream, Soloiste! Soloiste! I scream back at them, Agoniste! Agoniste!

Agoniste! Agoniste!

There are a lot of naked people here.

Soloiste! Soloiste!

I never knew such elation as those hours leading up to my suicide.