Lorenzo Lotto Angel Annunciating painting

Lorenzo Lotto Angel Annunciating paintingCamille Pissarro Rue de Louveciennes 1872 paintingCamille Pissarro Pissarro Hyde Park painting
Yathrib, this Jahilian Ayesha began to be jealous of her preeminent status of Best Beloved. She resented it when any of her "sisters" seemed to be experiencing an increase in visitors, or receiving exceptionally generous tips. The oldest, fattest whore, who had taken the name of "Sawdah", would tell her visitors and she had plenty, many of the men of Jahilia seeking her out for her maternal and also grateful charms -- the story of how Mahound had married her and Ayesha, on the same day, when Ayesha was just a child. "In the two of us," she would say, exciting men terribly, "he found the two halves of his dead first wife: the child, and the mother, too." The whore "Hafsah" grew as hot-tempered as her namesake, and as the twelve entered into the spirit of their roles the alliances in the brothel came to mirror the political cliques at the Yathrib mosque; "Ayesha" and "Hafsah", for example, engaged in constant, petty rivalries against the two haughtiest whores, who had always been thought a bit stuck-up by the others and who had chosen for themselves the most aristocratic identities, becoming "Umm Salamah the Makhzumite" and