A Tunisian Tale

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Hassouna Mosbahi. A Tunisian Tale

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“There is no folly of the beasts of the

earth which is not infinitely outdone

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At first the two of them avoided me, they ignored my presence, but I soon persuaded them to join me. It was easy once the two of them noticed how I was throwing money around. As we walked down onto the dance floor, her chest pressed against mine and her lips touched my cheek. I whispered to the one I think is named Naima that I was going to let her taste something she’d never had before. At that moment she pulled in closer to me and started stroking it with her warm hand until I couldn’t take it any more and we slipped into the garden to do it for the first time standing up. Then we finished up in the hotel where I was staying. I didn’t leave her until she had squealed twice with pleasure. Was it because of the monstrous act I had committed that my friend regained his vitality and no longer betrayed me like he used to do in the past?

I woke up around noon and found a letter from the one I think is named Naima informing me that she’d be waiting for me at the nightclub around the same time as the night before. But I didn’t want her anymore. So after ten I started cruising around from one nightclub to the next. In each one I drank a beer or two. I finally went back to the hotel at nine the next morning, flying somewhere between heaven and earth, with dreams and thoughts flickering in my head like the stars above. When I opened my eyes those towering bodies filled my tiny room and their eyes communicated their readiness to bash my head in if I showed the slightest sign of obstinacy or resistance.

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