Slight Return: Remix and Ekphrasis - The Argotist Online

The Great Wall and the Tower of Babelfrom the BharyadhikarikaHe is to attain, through weeks of restraint, desire such that a tumescence is achieved scarcelyinferior to the unruined glory of the Tower of Babel and, as regards divine approval, notentirely at variance with that edifice. He lies supine, that the monument of his desire towersabove him.She lies next to him, on her side, her back toward him, her curves and lavish limbs and silkensurfaces forming in their long extension a Great Wall. She begins, softly, to snore.He sees now that the tower failed because it was bound to fail.8