Sanam Khatibi
Subtitle: my garden is wilder than yours
By: text, Simon Delobel
Contributors: Delobel, Simon
Series: Posture Editions -- no 28; Posture Editions (Series) -- no 28.
Publisher: Posture Editions
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Gent
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9789491262296
Other titles: My garden is wilder than yours
Description: Nothing particular happened to disrupt the morning of the second day. I continued to follow the increasingly oppressive meanders of this strange swamp,0despairing of ever finding further traces of another human being, when I became aware of a gentle lapping noise coming from a nearby pool. I?d barely caught a glimpse of a naked young woman?s graceful curves when she was bitten by a snake, and then she fled. I will never forget the expression on her pale face: a mixture of surprise and fear, pain and pleasure. So much so that I wondered to what extent she had not yielded to the desire to be the serpent?s victim.0Promising myself not to mistake water snakes for floating branches, I set off in pursuit of the bather. After a few minutes, the sight of an unexpected scene stopped me in my tracks. A group of Naiads, similar in every way to the one I was chasing, were frolicking in the sludgy green waters, joyous and carefree: one hanging upside-down from a branch, the others playing with the severed tentacles of a giant octopus.?
Notes: In English and French.