The Complete Works by Urmuz

Author:Urmuz [Urmuz]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General, Literary Collections, European
ISBN: 9781900565349
Publisher: Atlas Press
Published: 2007-07-15T10:15:20+00:00

III

At the allotted hour the Three Graces made their appearance.

They carried Fuchs in their soft and voluptuous arms until they reached the end of a silken ladder, made of musical staves, which hung from the Olympian balcony where Venus was waiting.

Unfortunately Vulcan-Hephaistos heard of this all too soon and, filled with jealousy, enlisted Jupiter's aid in unleashing a violent thunderstorm.

Although his umbrella was still being repaired, Fuchs did not allow himself to be defeated. Knowing how to walk slowly along the staves, and supported by the powerful wings of inspiration, he rose higher and higher in defiance of the elements. At last he reached Olympus, completely drenched. Aphrodite gave him a hero's welcome. She embraced him, she kissed him passionately — and then she sent him to an automatic oven for drying prunes.

At nightfall Fuchs was ushered into the alcove. Nothing but songs and flowers all around. The Graces and all the other Olympian servants of Venus danced before him, covering him with flowers and sprinkling him with aphrodisiacs, while in the distance innumerable tiny, invisible Loves were chanting songs of praise under Orpheus's inspired baton.

Shortly afterwards the Nine Muses appeared. Using Euterpe's melodious voice they gave Fuchs this welcome:

"Hail, thou chosen Mortal, thou who, by thy divine art, canst bring men closer to the Gods. Venus is waiting for thee. May Jupiter grant that thy art and love prove worthy of our goddess — our mistress — and may he grant that a new and superior race emerge from the love that unites you, a race that will henceforth populate not only the Earth, which can only aspire to Olympus, but also Olympus which — like Earth — is, alas, also subject to decay."

The welcome thus ended, the choirs of invisible cherubs once again sang in praise of love, while the bards tuned their lyres and extolled the immortal moment.

It was not long before silence prevailed... Nothing was to be seen. The alcove sank into a bluish semi-obscurity. Venus waited all naked. White, her hands clasped behind her head under golden hair unplaited, with a gesture of delicious abandon and supreme sensuousness Aphrodite stretched her superb milky body across the soft-pillowed, flower-strewn bed. The air was filled with an exciting warmth and aroma. Fuchs, all bashfulness and trepidation, would have liked to enter some deep crevice; but as there is no such thing on Olympus, he had to take heart.

Again, Fuchs would have liked at first to run round the room a little, but Aphrodite, with her fine hand and her fingers of scented roses, drew him out of his discomfort... She picked him up lightly, caressed him, then lifted him two or three times up to the ceiling, looked at him languorously and kissed him with passion. Then she caressed him again, kissed him a thousand times more and set him between her breasts.

Fuchs began to tremble with joy, and, still nervous, would have liked to jump somewhere like a flea. But, dazzled and drunk by her torrid

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