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“Why was the path to a woman so tortuous and mystifying, and why was he, with all his fame and strength, unable to traverse it, when so many men worse than him did? So many—yet only he, in his vigorous and laughable prime, for ever held out his arms as in a dream. What was it women were after?”

(from “The Journey Of Ali Djerzelez”)