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ty blocks of brick behind his back (kun, lit. "ass"). In the mid-
dle of the night a sodomist (luti) gently removed the bricks
in an attempt to engage in sexual intercourse with the boy.
The boy woke up and began to quarrel: "Why have you taken
the bricks?" The man replied: "Why did you put these bricks
there (in the first place)?" In the argument that ensues the
youngster explains that he cannot go anywhere without

some "foul ungodly wrongdoer raising his head" before him
like a wild beast (VI:3855). He notes that in the Sufi hospice
(khanaqah), which is supposed to be the best place, a bunch
of greedy porridge-eaters assault him, "with their eyes full of
semen and the palms (of their hands) squeezing their testi-
cles" (VI:3856–57). He continues that even the one who has
the most regard for the (Muslim) law "steals covert glances
(while) stroking his penis" (VI:3858). The young boy sums up
his predicament in this line: "I have no means of escape either

from men or women / what can I do, since I belong neither to
these (men) nor to those (women)?" (VI:3865)" (Mahdi Tourage,
Rumi and the Hermeutics of Eroticism, Iran Studies, vol.2, p.168)

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