Friday, November 7, 2008

Edvard Munch The Scream painting

Edvard Munch The Scream paintingGustav Klimt Mother and Child detail from The Three Ages of Woman paintingGuido Reni The Archangel Michael painting
from the pilgrimage, and was mooching along disconsolately, a little distance apart from the rest, sniffing the bougainvillaea bushes. Saeed jumped out of the Mercedes and rushed off to Ayesha, to make another scene. "You monster!" he shouted. "Monster without a heart! Why did you bring the old woman here to die?" She ignored him, but on his way back to the station wagon the Sarpanch came over and said: "We were poor people. We knew we could never hope to go to Mecca Sharif, until she persuaded. She persuaded, and now see the outcome of her deeds."
Ayesha the kahin asked to speak to the Sarpanch, but gave him not a single word of consolation. "Harden your faith," she scolded him. "She who dies on the great pilgrimage is assured in Paradise. Your wife is sitting now among the angels and the flowers; what is there for you to regret?"
That evening the Sarpanch Muhammad Din approached Mirza Saeed as he sat by a small campfire. "Excuse, Sethji," he said, "but is it possible that I

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