"What?" "Purse your lips." "Even with turmeric on your face..." "It is still possible for you to kiss Ratnasen." "With your lower lip." " Wretched bird!" " Kiss him." "The lower lip!" "The yellow that is smeared on your nose and forehead... will not touch his face." "You have no turmeric on your lips." "Listen:" "Her hair tangled and unparted." "Her necklace, bangles lay in broken bits." "Her dress fell open by itself." "The stitches in her blouse were loosened." "Idiot bird!" "This woman was expert at foreplay." "Each part of her body had its own scent." "An inexpert woman smells the same all over." " I'll kill him!" " No tangy aftertaste at the shoulder." "No sweet lips, no sour nipples, no salty, sweaty forehead." " Help!" " How vulgar you are!" "The day he flies will spell his end." "He's only repeating what he's heard." "His wings are clipped." "You're a bird and I am human." "It's sinking." "Finders keepers." "She's lost her necklace." "A necklace is gone!" "Is it broken?" "Remember me." "Do you remember me?" "Your love can no longer even say this much." "Remember that, Ratnasen!" " Who's that?" " Here." "Me, the parrot astrologer." "Her wide eyes surround dark nights." "Alone, in this moment, your love longs for you." "Open the cage." "The dagger!" "Again?" "Name!" " What's my love's name?" " A simple question, child." "Kurangi." "I will have you freed." "No need to buy me." "Birdcatcher sleeps." "Just open the cage." " I'll serve your interests." " My interests?" "Oh, Rama!" "Don't you follow?" "I know a secret passage... into Kurangi's... palace." " Follow me." " Your name?" "Hiraman." "Hiraman?" "Ratnasen, her belly descends like a leaf thick with sandal paste." "A delicate line of fine hair... rises from her navel bu!" "stops short of her breasts." "The navel is a death-well where many a man has drowned." "And just below... lies that darkness... bearing the footprint of a deer." "Ratnasen, Why this look?" "Don't you understand "footprint"?" "Cloven hoof!" "Why do you do this?" "Do what?" "I don't understand." " Why take me there?" " To get revenge." "A madman lives there." "He appears religious..." "but blind to Eros." "How will he ever free himself?" "I'll be back." "My love is far away." "Seperation set one afire once." "The smoke of her fire has reached me." "Fulfil this desire." "Answer." "Answer." "The one I came to invoke is asleep." "Who will fulfil this desire?" "I have found the true preceptor" "Who has made my pain disappear." "You can't... receive an offering." "Come, Ratnasen." "Hiraman!" "Quick!" "Let him in, he's here." "No!" "Kurangi!" "Move aside." "Let me by." "Trees." "Burn." "Are consumed." "Here." "There." "The fire." "Cool as wind from... a sandal forest." "Strange." "The body is burning... but I..." "Even the shadow is invisible." "Your body?" "It's true." "You are invisible." "Your touch makes others invisible." "All are invisible." "Don't ever forget this, my love." "I am not visible... for this universe." "I'm hidden in the infinite night." "I return to my love's palace."