Juan Gris Guitar and Music Pape painting

Juan Gris Guitar and Music Pape paintingJuan Gris Fantomas Pipe and Newspaper paintingGeorge Bellows The Picnic painting
Gibreel dreamed a curtain:
The Curtain, _Hijab_, was the name of the most popular brothel in Jahilia, an enormous palazzo of date--palms in water--tinkling courtyards, surrounded by chambers that interlocked in bewildering mosaic patterns, permeated by labyrinthine corridors which had been deliberately decorated to look alike, each of them bearing the same calligraphic invocations to Love, each carpeted with identical rugs, each with a large stone urn positioned against a wall. None of The Curtain's clients could ever find their way, without help, either into the rooms of their favoured courtesan or back again to the street. In this way the girls were protected from unwanted guests and the payment before departure. Large Circassian eunuchs, dressed after the ludicrous of lamp--genies, escorted the visitors to their and back again, sometimes with the help of balls of string. It was a soft windowless universe of draperies, ruled over by the ancient and nameless Madam of the Curtain whose guttural utterances from the secrecy of a chair shrouded in black veils had acquired,