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them the solution. Behind, I heard Raoul, always ahead of
enigma, to charge an attentive the charade of Victor Hugo:
- My first is talkative. My second is a bird. My third is in the
coffee. My whole is a pastry. There was room for
discussion. Mainly because solution seemed simple. While
Freddy played the Gershwin on the piano and concocted
his Amandine scholars cocktails, I racked my brains, “My
first is talkative? A magpie. But a pie, it is also my second,
the bird … And who, what, is in a café: a drunk, a server, a
beer? “
174 - ISLAMIC MYTHOLOGY
According to Islamic tradition, Paradise is huge and
Spread over eight cylindrical rings. Irrigated by four rivers, it
is a delightful place. Here the four bask first caliphs, the first
ten men converted to Islam and the Prophet’s daughter
Fatima. All have seventy houses covered with gold and
stones precious. Each pavilion includes seven hundred
beds occupied by seven hundred houris. Seven animals
are identified Paradise: the camel of Elijah, the ram of
Abraham, the whale of Jonah, the mare Borak, the ant and
the crest of Solomon, the dog of the Seven Sleepers.
The Prophet offers its guests various pleasures but
an infinite sensuality.