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He guessed that it had been some woman watching a bird build its nest, sewing the strands of straw back and forth and fucking the ends in place with her sharp bill.
Hilarious typo.
one of the morning prayers recited by men included the passage: “Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who hast not made me a woman.”
Tabari held that Arabs had the best attitude: “My father once said he never wore a new shoe until he had limbered it up three times over the head of his fourth wife.
