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will always affect you like a Turk. You would get into the big quiet, the desert or the top of the house. You wont go to church to see their little parades their gildings & tinsel their little little bells to hear the money clinking for the society of Jesus for the new chapel the bad close damp air the nasty low priests who live without work. When I see genufluxcons & crossings & clap trap & [[strike through]] virgins [[strike through]] wood virgins gilt & statues in clay with gold crowns all jeweled on their heads I want to laugh always & I pity those who believe in them & I look down on them as my inferiors. The Turk don't pray like a Christian nor he don't pay any one to pray for him. [[strikethrough]] no to to him what [[/strikethrough]] We will now sing on 917th Psalm [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] the 1st 3rd of 5th verses 1st 3 & 5 my brethren omitting the 2d & 4th.

Let us all pray page 100 near the bottom of the page. My God. Fanny if you ever will make a habit of going to church I'll think less of you for it.

How often has Gerome painted those simple Eastern prayers. Is that cruel. Is that cold.

They are men of deep feeling these men of the East but they are lazy & sensual.

See the life of the rich in Gerome's picture Look at the beautiful slave getting sold for that mean looking man & the business air of the eunuch he feels her teeth to see if she is sound. To the Coffee house Almée the fat dancing girl with a big belly low head. I heard two fools say Gerome painted that picture [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] on the principle that Chaplin paints a girl with her clothes lifted up to interest only low people. It will interest very sensual people more [[strikethrough]] so [[/strikethrough]] sensual than those Turks who are yet hardly interested & they have [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] nature while this is but a picture, but the sensual people are better than the fools. Above those only sensual, comes [[strikethrough]] the and [[/strikethrough]] a higher class the thinking people [[strikethrough]] who above [[/strikethrough]] & feeling ones who always want to see everything to know more. There [[?]] [[strikethrough]] Gerome [[/strikethrough]] Balloy gave us the little niceties of color. Gerome has given us the people, the grand old people of the Bible & the Arabian nights.

How would you like to hear a minister reading the bible & omitting everything improper or coughing in its place. Thus & Abraham had one / hundred & ninety nine prolonged cough/ wife & seven hundred & 93 (concubines more coughs) I forget his [[strikethrough]] beggar boy [[/strikethrough]] blind man there's charity that old blind man they are plenty in the East being led from mosque door to mosque door by his grand daughter so carefully. You will never 

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