Trafika Europe 3 - Latvian Sojourn

they say when she came to Athens, the drunken Lord Byron leapt in the sea in proper welcome, like some male siren.

After the shipwreck near Cairo she lost all, took off her thin dress, donned men’s waterproof clothing and continued towards the spicy East. Refusing the veil she tore down every wall and veil of this world until, with twenty-two camels, she broke through eastern cities’ brass gates tearing their strict laws apart. With her nose-tip pointing towards Palmyra, she crossed a desert of scorpions and Bedouins

became the only woman welcomed with a laurel crown in that strange city. From then the turban on her shaved head was as a fat ouroboros gnawing at its own ego-tail.

Emir Mahannah el Fadel was not alone in dubbing her Queen Hester. But the ancient clay laughed at those titles. She sought gold florins buried under Gaza,

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