<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">By the eighteenth century the term odalisque referred to the eroticized artistic genre in which a nominally eastern woman lies on her side on display for the spectator.</span><sup id="cite_ref-delplato1_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11px;font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odalisque#cite_note-delplato1-1" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">[1]<span class="sewkbizwih17jn6"></span><span class="sewf9y5oma2nwke"></span></a></sup><br><div><br></div><div>What eroticized pleasures is the question, it seems. </div><div><br></div><div>(not even the Grace of an odalisque on a divan--Gilbert & Sullivan) </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 7:56 AM, Mike Jing <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gravitys.rainbow.cn@gmail.com" target="_blank">gravitys.rainbow.cn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>P141.24-32  “More like due diligence,†replied Dr. Counterfly, “and a respect for probabilities.†He gestured toward the image transmitted by the prisms of the instrument, which had been growing steadily clearer, like a fateful dawn none await with any eagerness. Too soon we discovered that we could not look away. Though details were still difficult to make out, the Figure appeared to recline on its side, an odalisque of the snows—though to what pleasures given posed a question far too dangerous—with as little agreement among us as to its “facial†features, some describing them as “Mongoloid,†others as “serpent-like.â€<br><br></div>What does "to what pleasures given" mean?<br><br></div>
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