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    • keep
    • creep
    • deep
    • asleep
    • sweep
    • leap
    • cheap
    • sheep
    • weep
    • peep
    • reap
    • jeep
    • dream
    • dreams
    • sleeping
    • feel
    • need
    • here
    • we're
    • leave
    • these
    • hear
    • believe
    • please
    • real
    • she's
    • mean
    • free
    • we'll
    • sweet

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    Perfect rhymes for sleep

      • keep
      • creep
      • deep
      • sweep
      • leap
      • cheap
      • sheep
      • weep
      • asleep
      • peep
      • reap
      • heap
      • seep
      • jeep
      • beep
      • steep
      • upkeep
      • oversleep
      • veep
      • clepe
      • reep
      • bleep
      • cheep
      • sneap
      • threap
      • leep
      • streep
      • black sheep
      • kreep
      • dieppe
      • felipe
      • bopeep
      • lepe
      • rubbish heap
      • dall sheep
      • tepe
      • diep
      • fall asleep
      • bighorn sheep
      • dirt cheap
      • inskeep
      • sepe
      • fast asleep
      • garbage heap
      • junk heap
      • sound asleep
      • trash heap
      • barbary sheep
      • merino sheep
      • mountain sheep
      • vegetable sheep
      • maned sheep
      • go deep
      • refuse heap
      • rocky mountain sheep
      • marco polo sheep
      • seip
      • seipp
      • white sheep
      • kneip

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      Near rhymes for sleep

      Near rhymes work great for songwriting, often giving a more interesting feel than perfect rhymes.

        • me
        • be
        • we
        • see
        • feel
        • need
        • here
        • she
        • we're
        • he
        • leave
        • these
        • hear
        • believe
        • please
        • real
        • she's
        • mean
        • free
        • we'll
        • sweet
        • dream
        • seen
        • feels
        • feet
        • we've
        • breathe
        • speak
        • meet
        • street
        • three
        • he's
        • dreams
        • t
        • between
        • seem
        • beat
        • each
        • seems
        • knees
        • keeps
        • treat
        • piece
        • queen
        • we'd
        • scream
        • sea
        • streets
        • eat
        • even
        • needs
        • means
        • week
        • peace
        • underneath
        • reach
        • tv
        • weak
        • green
        • really
        • deal
        • feeling
        • least
        • bleed
        • d
        • clean
        • it
        • easy
        • ve
        • keys
        • steal
        • heat
        • e
        • key
        • scene
        • she'll
        • seat
        • leaves
        • is
        • teeth
        • teach
        • with
        • this
        • being
        • beach
        • feed
        • trees
        • g
        • if
        • repeat
        • freak
        • sheets
        • heal
        • sleeping
        • tree
        • speed
        • ear
        • jeans
        • heels
        • p

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        If you’re a songwriter, a quick search online will throw up thousands of different words and expressions that rhyme

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        But are these the best rhymes for songwriters? I don’t know about you, but if I’m going to choose between “thieve” and “breach” (which do not rhyme), I’ll always choose “thieve”

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        233 best rhymes for 'sleep'

        1 syllable

        • Keep

        • Cheap

        • Peep

        • Sheep

        • Creep

        • Deep

        • Leap

        • Weep

        • Reap

        • Sweep

        • Treat

        • Heat

        • Meet

        • Sweet

        • Feet

        • Street

        • Cheat

        • Sheet

        • Eat

        • Seat

        • Beat

        • Skeet

        • Jeep

        • Beep

        • Steep

        • Neat

        • Greet

        • Seep

        • Heap

        • Tweet

        • Speak

        • League

        • Sneak

        • Seek

        • Clique

        • Freak

        • Meek

        • Weak

        • Peak

        • Cheek

        • Bleep

        • Leak

        • Fleet

        • Streep

        • Eap

        • Pete

        • Streak

        • Wheat

        • Bleak

        • Geek

        • Creek

        • Sleet

        • She'd

        • Need

        • Weed

        • Read

        • Least

        • Lead

        • Beast

        • Feed

        • Bleed

        • Speed

        • Plead

        • East

        • Fried

        • Feast

        • Seed

        • Greed

        • Reached

        • Breed

        • Fleek

        • Cleat

        • Dweeb

        • Teat

        • Priest

        • Crete

        • Leet

        • Veit

        • Liebe

        • Breit

        • Pleat

        • Threet

        • Greek

        • Tweak

        • Reek

        • Chic

        • Creed

        • Sleek

        • Squeak

        • Beak

        • Shriek

        • Deed

        • Heed

        • Dreamed

        • Field

        • Seemed

        • Fiend

        • Krieg

        • Zeke

        • Eke

        • Sieg

        • Teague

        • Eeg

        • Reeg

        • Screamed

        • Shield

        • Yeast

        • Sealed

        • Preached

        • Ceased

        • Leaked

        • Peaked

        • Peed

        • Peeped

        • Breached

        • Freaked

        • Steed

        • Reaped

        • Keyed

        • Bead

        • Bleached

        • Tweaked

        • Seeped

        • Greased

        2 syllables

        • Asleep

        • Concrete

        • Defeat

        • Repeat

        • Delete

        • Complete

        • Compete

        • Elite

        • Retreat

        • Unique

        • Heartbeat

        • Backseat

        • Deceit

        • Technique

        • Discreet

        • Receipt

        • Athlete

        • Deadbeat

        • Deplete

        • Worried

        • Released

        • Indeed

        • Proceed

        • Buried

        • Married

        • Succeed

        • Mistreat

        • Petite

        • Deceased

        • Bullied

        • Carried

        • Offbeat

        • Secrete

        • Backstreet

        • Amit

        • Conceit

        • Upbeat

        • Excrete

        • Mincemeat

        • Replete

        • Starfleet

        • Downbeat

        • Wallstreet

        • Bridgette

        • Drumbeat

        • Unseat

        • Effete

        • Spreadsheet

        • Mohit

        • Mesquite

        • Gamete

        • Physique

        • Critique

        • Mystique

        • Bodied

        • Antique

        • Unleashed

        • Fatigue

        • Intrigue

        • Believed

        • Oblique

        • Boutique

        • Blitzkrieg

        • Monique

        • Newsweek

        • Midweek

        • Misspeak

        • Colleague

        • Clinique

        • Newspeak

        • Tariq

        • Bespeak

        • Studied

        • Agreed

        • Mislead

        • Exceed

        • Increased

        • Copied

        • Stampede

        • Concede

        • Emptied

        • Partied

        • Bloodied

        • Impede

        • Misread

        • Received

        • Decreased

        • Hurried

        • Reread

        • Recede

        3 syllables

        • Incomplete

        • Oversleep

        • Obsolete

        • Bittersweet

        • Overheat

        • Parakeet

        • Indiscreet

        • Uncomplete

        • Marguerite

        • Guaranteed

        • Dominique

        • Chesapeake

        • Vanderbeek

        • Martinique

        • Doublespeak

        • Centipede

        • Disagreed

        • Embodied

        4 syllables

        • Accompanied

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        Lucid dreams. Why are they needed, how to cause, what are the consequences? / Habr

        In the search for productivity, sleep occupies a special place. It can be used for deep and high-quality rest allocated to the body by nature itself. And you can treat it as a tool for studying the psyche.

        Hello! RISE is in touch: community about nootropics and personal productivity . And in this material, we will dive into lucid dreams, and how they can be used for personal productivity.

        Where are you diving?

        Lucid dreams. Methodology

        In psychology, the subject of dreams was first covered by Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung. But they did it based on their own vision of definitions and categories. In particular, Freud saw the manifestation in dreams of repressed motives and desires. Carl Gustav Jung, on the contrary, wrote about the existence of crystallized images of the common unconscious, which he called archetypes. By the way, archetypes are used everywhere in art - even in computer games, which is not as useless as seems to be. However, the achievements of these psychologists were the first attempts to categorize the subjective experience of each person, based on the worldviews of two European scientists.

        Allan Hobson on split consciousness and lucid dreams

        Allan Hobson took up the modern concept of lucid dreaming. The author devoted his entire scientific life and career to the study of dreams and the meanings inherent in them. Sometimes it seems that these meanings can be written in self-development techniques , although this is not entirely true. The author proposes the following concept of consciousness, and features of its work in sleep and wakefulness:

        • Consciousness is divided into primary and secondary. The primary is given all the functions of sensing the world. That is, it can only feel and nothing more. The secondary consciousness, which works when a person is awake, explains and interprets everything that we see.

        • At the same time, a certain formation called qualia is in the mind. Qualia is a holistic and indivisible self-image. A kind of self-awareness that does not split, but constantly changes throughout life. The most appropriate analogy to describe the qualia is the imaginary ship of the Argonauts, which is in the museum. Once a year, one board rots and is replaced with a new one. Question: Will it still be the same ship when all the boards are replaced? The same is true of our self-awareness.

        • Primary and secondary consciousness is like a medium for our qualia. The primary offers the sensory experience from which we form our relationship with the environment. Secondary - explains why exactly this happens.

        Sleep is presented by Allan Hobbs as a tool for assimilation of the experience gained. Roughly speaking, the brain digests the received information. And how effectively he does this depends on how "eagerly" he will receive information in the new period of activity. Bioavailability Information as bioavailability of nootropics varies. And it has a different effect on the formation of the psyche.

        Therefore, when it comes to how to learn faster , the priority will always be the most healthy sleep. But is it possible to get a little more out of sleep than just quality rest? Stanislav Grof thinks so.

        Stanislav Grof about lucid dreams
        Stanislav Grof shows the client the reason for his fears and insecurities. Photo in color

        The end of the 70s was marked in the world of psychiatry by the prohibition of psychedelic substances. Society was in revolt, effectiveness on the battlefield was in doubt, and cases of mental disorders were on the rise. The government needed quick results, and in this case, a nuclear reaction is preferable to the most colorful DMT effects .

        Stanislav Grof was one of the psychiatrists who saw the potential of psychedelics in dealing with psychological trauma and problems. And then the scientist wondered if it was possible to induce the effects of a psychedelic trip without psychedelics. The options were as follows:

        • Hypnosis. Back then, it was still considered an effective tool, albeit incredibly labor-intensive. It was difficult to measure its effectiveness scientifically. Fixing the subjective effect is problematic. And science treated this phenomenon as a subspecies of quackery.

        • Holotropic Breathwork. What Stanislav Grof is known for in the modern world. A person begins to consciously combine the phases of oxygen starvation and increased oxygenation of the brain. In response to this, the brain begins to actively engage the pineal gland , releasing neurohormones, including DMT. And the person experiences a slight trip.

        • Lucid dreams. A specific state of consciousness when we understand where we are and can change the environment. Due to what this happens, we will analyze later. It is important to note here that Stanislav Grof was one of the first to turn to lucid dreams as a tool. And that's what prompted him to this idea.

        In a dream, a person experiences a rich experience of a lifetime. Including the basic sensations that I experienced prenatally. The existence that everyone experienced in utero remains with us for life and is reflected in dreams and religion.

        • Grof equated the feeling of flight with heavenly sensations. The embryo splashes in the amniotic fluid, experiencing a feeling of weightlessness. He draws food, warmth and care from the same environment in which he is.

        • Feeling of emptiness and anxiety. What happens in the mind shortly before the nightmare. Purgatory, or the state of the embryo when the waters have already broken. A somewhat blurry feeling, as hell immediately begins after it.

        • Squeezing, closed rooms, corridors or blockages. The inability to run or hide from the monster. This is the experience of those same labor pains, when you are squeezed and pushed through a long corridor to no one knows where.

        • Birth or awakening.

        All these sensations are embedded in us by a series of events. Physically, we cannot go through the process of childbirth again, or change from one stage to another. At least in the normal world. But lucid dreaming offers an opportunity to break the paradigm of established patterns. This can be facilitated by specially created conditions, or willpower .

        Timothy Leary about what unites the LSD trip and lucid dreaming

        In fact, you dive into yourself and see all the possible choices at the same time

        When working with clients, Stanislav Grof used the method of immersion in prenatal experience. If Freud is a couch and a lying client, then Grof is a client curled up in a ball on a soft carpet and covered with a dense cloth that practically does not let in sunlight.

        When using holotropic breathing, Grof led the client along the path of fears and experienced sensations. Which totally rhymes with psychedelic trips and what Timothy Leary has researched.

        Timothy Leary is an LSD cultural evangelist. In the world of psychology, he is known for the Interpersonal Relationship Test, which is supposedly still used by the CIA to interview potential employees. But in the culture of psychonauts, Timothy Leary is famous for his book The Seven Tongues of God, in which, step by step, he described the stages that a psychonaut experiences when plunging into an acid trip. In order not to spoil, I will describe the first three, since they can be experienced as in LSD experience and through lucid dreams.

        • Stage one. vegetative changes. When LSD begins to act, a person feels a number of changes: the frequency and depth of breathing, pulse, goosebumps, slight dizziness. The same thing happens at the time of the onset of REM sleep. Breathing changes, the pulse quickens, the eyeballs move intensively. There may be twitching of the limbs. At this point, the psychonaut begins to observe unrelated images. Fractals, blurring of objects, overlapping images.

        • Stage two. Erotic experience. When a full-fledged trip begins, and we are talking about a successful trip, a person is faced with pleasant and positive sensations. Erections, erotic fantasies, sexual images are a frequent companion of psychonauts. But it's still a slippery line from which you can easily fall like a bad trip, or just get stuck on it.

        • Stage three. Flight. Timothy Leary described it as an opportunity to avoid obvious threats. With proper accompaniment or an act of willpower, a person can have a transcendental experience. It's something that you can't even imagine, but it feels quite real. If you watched the first Doctor Strange, then meeting the Ancient One is the experience. Only for Strange, he slowly and inevitably led to a bad trip if he was not brought back to the "real world".

        Usually in dreams we get stuck in the first stage. It's enjoyable enough, as long as the traumatic experience doesn't come out. Sometimes, especially in adolescence, when the pineal gland plows to the fullest, we fall into erotic experiences. And sometimes, with the proper share of luck, we fly in a dream and try to enjoy the feeling of omnipotence.

        But in a lucid dream we can travel through all three stages, changing them as we please. We can construct worlds, as did the heroes of the film "Inception". But the main thing is not to be too happy, otherwise, we will wake up. So it turns out that all this is necessary only in order to avoid fears and spend time in colorful pictures?

        Why go into lucid dreams?

        Then

        So, let's collect the accumulated experience of three psychologists who threw their time and effort into lucid dreaming. Allan Hobson talked about the existence of sentient and aware parts of consciousness that form us as an indivisible qualia. Stanislav Grof spoke about the imprinted seals of prenatal experience that emerges in dreams. And Timothy Leary described exactly what the stages of sleep are, and that you can travel through them, literally realizing, what is a psychedelic trip . But what to do with all this?

        Features of consciousness and experience
        He never asked for this

        Lucid dreams are interesting because they give incredible sensations. Those who have ever caught themselves in a lucid dream state remember this incredible feeling of omnipotence. The end of fears, anxieties and constant creativity. At a certain point in time, consciousness seems to take control, and you understand that the world around you can be changed only by the power of thought. And it happens, as described by Allan Hobson, as follows.

        • The secondary consciousness, the one that relates to conscious activity and the assimilation of the experience gained, becomes the environment. Literally a space that is beginning to be explored.

        • The study is conducted on behalf of the primary consciousness, which is responsible for receiving emotions, sensations and impressions. That is why in a dream it is impossible: to read, see numbers, play chess or write.

        • In fact, our rational consciousness becomes an external environment through which sensations and images are chasing. And, having gained access to it, we actually gain power over everything that surrounds us, thereby becoming a qualia, an integral entity, where we are the world around us.

        This happens at the moment of an exceptional experience or preformed attitude. An example of the first is a fall. At this point, you can either “crash” or, through an effort of will, turn the fall into flight. And then either get stuck at this stage, enjoying the sensations of the flight, or move on.

        Here we trace the return journey through the stages described by Stanislav Grof. Most often, inclusion in a lucid dream occurs at the peak of the fear that accompanies childbirth. And a person finds strength and redirects fear and contraction into flight, as in heavenly amniotic fluid.

        And it can hang in this nirvana, waiting for awakening. Or maybe move on.

        Solving psychological problems
        And here and there, you are lying. But sleep is free

        The value of a psychedelic experience is not in its hallucinations and sensations. Taking psychedelics for the sake of it is like eating food just for the taste - which is one of the eating disorders. The psychedelic experience is valuable in that one can feel control and acceptance in relation to one's fears and unresolved conflicts.

        Timothy Leary repeatedly noted in his works that the success of the trip is ensured by the set and setting. A set of pre-trip set-ups and an accompanying partner who remains conscious: a psychotherapist, a tribal shaman, or someone who has been on a trip many times and has an idea of ​​what you're experiencing. As a result, this person from the outside can guide you, helping you overcome fears, doubts and panic. The latter is important because psychoactive substances keep a person for hours. Accordingly, the fear and horror of a psychedelic trip can break the idea of ​​​​the world, and give nothing in return. Returning from there, a person will be crippled, not full.

        Lucid dreams are just missing this. They can travel, change, face fears. And, if the situation gets out of control, the body will wake you up, pulling you out of the traumatic experience.

        In fact, lucid dreams are used to:

        • Facing and accepting fears. A person sees what frightens him. He can stop the nightmare, consider the monster and see in it both himself and something small, small, sitting in the back of consciousness, from children's stories.

        • A person can gain confidence. By changing the world and interacting with it directly, a person wakes up with a sense of confidence and faith in his own strength. Which also has a positive effect on well-being.

        • Acquire transcendental experience without harm to health. Most often, entering into lucid dreaming requires practice and mindfulness before sleep. Dream diaries, watch tracking, sleep mode. Most often you need to wake up at 5 am and fall asleep again. Then the likelihood of falling into lucid dreams is much higher.

        Lucid dreaming is not a diamond bullet. They are hard to see. They will not give a quick increase in productivity. They do not guarantee instant results. But at the same time they remain one of the most accessible tools to our consciousness.

        Effects of lucid dreaming

        Well, hello

        Slight fatigue. You are literally not sleeping. Therefore, it is pointless to look for lucid dreams with 6-7 hours of sleep. It is much better to experiment with them when there is guaranteed more time than 8 hours for sleep.

        Positive changes, if any, are purely subjective. You will slowly work out personal tricks, and how to track these processes is also up to you. If you had such an experience, share it in the comments. It will be interesting to know.

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        Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. The Dream of Sultana

        The Garage Museum publishes a translation of the short story "The Dream of Sultana" (1905) by Bengali suffragist, educator and pioneer of women's education in South Asia, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.

        The Dream unfolds the image of the utopian (and for some, perhaps, on the contrary, dystopian) state of Ladyland, in which gender hierarchies are mirrored: the country is led exclusively by women. They hold back men who are overwhelmed by predatory moods, repel enemy attacks, and eradicate crime. Ladyland introduced universal female education, practiced alternative nature management and relied on ecological transport.

        A visionary story printed over a hundred years ago in The Indian Ladies' Magazine, the first English-language women's magazine of its kind in British India, has long become a classic of feminist literature in South Asia, anticipating not only the women's liberation movement, but also today's universally binding environmental agenda. . The Dream of the Sultana also inspired Field Research participant Aphra Shafik to create the online game The Real of the Sultana, a feminist quest in the spirit of Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. "Yav Sultans" is a site in the aesthetics of net-art 1990s, which tells the story of the emancipation of women in India - from princesses hidden in the inner chambers of palaces to bonded housewives, as well as how their relationship with education developed: books, access to knowledge and home courses.

        Afra Shafik's "field research" focuses on visual images from Russian fairy tales and stories of Soviet writers, familiar to many residents of the Hindustan Peninsula since the Cold War. Decades of intensive Soviet diplomacy between the USSR and India in the post-war years formed a hybrid space of a common culture, which was accessed in both countries by representatives of different social strata. Translation literature, double-sided film distribution, tours of ballet and circus troupes sated the collective imagination and gave ideas about each other to the inhabitants of India and the USSR, and Soviet book illustration is a significant part of childhood memories for the generation that grew up in India from 1960s to mid 1980s.

        The story "Sultana's Dream", published on the Garage website, is illustrated by the works of contemporary Indian artist Chitra Ganesh. In her work, she has created a recognizable style that is both reminiscent of Indian comics of the 1960s (in particular the graphic novel Amar Chitra Katha) and vintage illustrations for fantasy and non-fiction. In the context of Shafik's research, it seems appropriate to compare Ganesh's drawings with engravings created by students of the Polygraph school (class of Vladimir Favorsky, which essentially spun off from Vkhutemas). Thus, Ganesh's "Sultana's Dream" series rhymes with the work of Andrey Goncharov or Vladimir Kovenatsky, opening up space for speculation about how today a new generation of Indian and Russian artists and curators can interact with a common cultural past.

        Yaroslav Volovod
        Curator, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

        One evening in my bedroom, I was idly thinking about the plight of Indian women, leaning back in an easy chair. Whether I dozed off or not, I can't say. But I remember that everything was like in reality. I could clearly see the moonlit sky, in which myriads of diamond-like stars shone.

        Suddenly there was a woman in front of me - I don't know how she got in. I mistook her for my friend, Sister Sarah.

        "Good morning," Sister Sarah said. I smiled to myself, for I knew that it was not morning, but a starry night. But in response, I asked: “How are you?”.

        — Okay, thanks. Would you like to go outside and look at the garden?

        I looked at the moon again through the open window and figured it wouldn't hurt to take a walk at this time. The servants outside the door were already sound asleep, and I could take a leisurely walk with Sister Sarah.

        Chitra Ganesh
        Sultana's dream. 2018
        Series of 27 Linocuts
        Printed by Durham Press, Inc.
        Courtesy of the artist and Durham Press, Inc.

        When we were in Darjeeling, we often walked with Sister Sarah. Many times we wandered hand in hand through the botanical garden and chatted carelessly. It seemed to me that Sister Sarah wanted to take a walk in the garden, so I gladly accepted her offer and went outside.

        To my surprise, it was already a fine morning there. The whole city did not sleep, and the streets were full of people. It was very embarrassing for me to walk in the daylight, but there was not a single man to be seen anywhere.

        Some passers-by made fun of me. And although I did not understand the language they spoke, I knew for sure that they were joking. I asked a friend, “What are they talking about?”

        Women think you look very manly.

        - Courageously? I asked. What do they mean by that?

        - That you are timid and shy, like a man.

        — Timid and shy, like a man?

        This is clearly a joke. I became worried when I realized that it was not Sister Sarah who was accompanying me, but a strange woman. How foolish of me to confuse this lady with my dear friend, Sister Sarah!

        She felt my fingers tremble as we held hands.

        — What's wrong, dear? she asked sympathetically.

        “I feel embarrassed,” I said in an apologetic tone, “because I observe purdah and am not used to going without a veil.

        — Don't be afraid, you won't see men here. We are in Ladyland, a land free from temptation and sin. Virtue rules here.

        Soon I fell in love with the scenery. He was extremely picturesque. I took a small green lawn for a velvet pillow. I felt as if I were walking on a soft carpet, and when I looked down I saw a path covered with moss and flowers.

        Chitra Ganesh
        Sultana's dream. 2018
        Series of 27 Linocuts
        Printed by Durham Press, Inc.
        Courtesy of the artist and Durham Press, Inc.

        — What a beauty! I exclaimed.

        Do you like it? Sister Sarah asked. (I continued to call her Sister Sarah, and she called me by my first name.)

        - Yes, very much. But I'm not used to walking on delicate and soft flowers.

        — Don't worry, dear Sultana, you won't harm them; they are street flowers.

        “It all looks like a garden,” I said enthusiastically. - Every flower is so skillfully arranged here!

        - If your countrymen wanted it, your Calcutta would turn into a better garden than this one.

        — They would think it useless to give so much attention to gardening while there are so many other things to do.

        "They can't find a better excuse," she smiled.

        It became very interesting to me where the men had gone. As we walked, I saw over a hundred women, but not a single man.

        — Where are the men? I asked.

        - Where they should be, in their places.

        — Tell me, please, what does it mean — in your places?

        - Oh, I realized my mistake - because you were not here and do not know our customs. We shut up the men.

        — How are we shut up in zenana?

        — Exactly.

        “Funny,” and I burst out laughing. Sister Sarah laughed too.

        — How unfair, dear Sultana, to shut up harmless women and dismiss men.

        — Why? It is not safe for us to leave zenana, for we are naturally weak.

        — Of course, it's not safe while there are men on the streets, but isn't it less dangerous when a wild animal is in the market?

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        - Of course not.

        — Suppose madmen escaped from a lunatic asylum and cause all sorts of inconvenience to people, horses and other creatures. What will your fellow citizens do in this case?

        - They will try to capture them and put them back in the lunatic asylum.

        — Here you are! Don't you think it's wise to keep healthy people in an orphanage and let out the sick?

        - Of course not! I laughed lightly.

        — But in your country they do exactly that! Men who cause - or at least are able to cause - all sorts of inconveniences roam freely outside, and innocent women are locked in zenana! How can you let such uncivilized men out?

        — We have neither the right nor the voice in the management of our public affairs. A man in India is the master and king, he appropriated all the power and privileges to himself and closed women in zenana.

        — But why did you allow yourself to be locked up?

        — After all, what can you do, they are stronger than women.

        — The lion is stronger than man, but this does not allow him to control the human race. You have neglected the duty of looking after yourself, and by turning a blind eye to your own interests, you have lost your natural rights.

        — But, dear sister Sarah, if we do everything ourselves, then what will be left for the men?

        — Sorry, of course, but they shouldn't do anything, they're good for nothing. Just grab them and shut them in zenana.

        — But is it easy to catch and lock them up within four walls? I asked. “And even if you do so, will not their occupations, politics and trade, also end up in zenana with them?”

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        Sister Sarah did not answer. She just smiled sweetly. Perhaps she thought it was pointless to continue arguing with someone who, in her opinion, was no better than a frog in a well.

        By that time we had reached Sister Sarah's house. It was located in a beautiful garden in the shape of a heart. It was a bungalow with a corrugated iron roof. It was better and cooler inside than in any of our rich houses. I cannot describe how neat and tidy this house was furnished, nor how tastefully it was decorated.

        We sat next to each other. She brought the embroidery out of the living room and began work on a new pattern.

        — Can you knit and embroider?

        — Yes, there is nothing else to do in zenana.

        — But we do not entrust embroidery to those who sit in our zenana, — she laughed, — because a man does not have the patience to even thread a needle!

        — Did you do all this yourself? I asked, pointing to the details of the embroidered tablecloths for the three-legged tea tables.

        Yes.

        — But how did you find time for this job? You also have clerical duties. Is not it so?

        Yes. But I don't sit in the lab for days. I can get the job done in two hours.

        — In two hours! How do you do it? Officials in our country - magistrates, for example - work seven hours a day.

        - I saw how they work. Do you think they work all seven hours straight?

        — Of course!

        — No, dear Sultana, it is not so. They waste their time smoking. Some people smoke two or three chiruts while working. They talk a lot about work, but do nothing. If you imagine that chiruta can be smoked in half an hour, and a man smokes twelve pieces a day, it becomes clear to you that he spends six hours just smoking.

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        We talked about various topics, and I learned that they were not plagued by epidemics and did not suffer from mosquito bites like we do. To my extreme surprise, no one in Ladyland died young, except as a result of infrequent accidents.

        - Would you like to take a look at our kitchen? she asked.

        “With pleasure,” I replied, and we headed there. Of course, the men were asked to leave when I entered. The kitchen was in a beautiful garden. Each vine, each tomato bush was an ornament in itself. I did not find any smoke, not a single pipe - it was clear and light; the windows were decorated with flower pots. There was no sign of fire or coal.

        — How do you cook? I asked.

        “With the help of sunlight,” she answered, at the same time showing me a tube through which concentrated sunlight and heat passed. And then she cooked something and showed me how.

        — How do you manage to collect and store solar heat? I asked in surprise.

        — Let me tell you a little about our history. Thirty years ago, when our queen was thirteen, she inherited the throne. She was only a queen in title, for in reality we were ruled by a prime minister.

        Our good queen was very fond of science. She issued a decree for all women in the country to be educated. And, accordingly, the government founded and began to support schools for girls. Education has become widespread among women. Early marriages were forbidden. No woman could marry before the age of twenty-one. I must say that before these reforms, we all strictly observed purdah.

        “How easily things change,” I interrupted with a laugh.

        — But seclusion has been preserved, — she answered. “After a few years, we had separate universities where men were not accepted.

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        There are two universities in the capital where our queen lives. In one they came up with a wonderful ball, to which several tubes were attached. This device is held above the clouds and helps to draw the right amount of water from the atmosphere. And since the water is constantly obtained by people from the university, the clouds do not gather, and our resourceful lady headmistress was able to put an end to the rain and storm.

        — Really? Now I understand why there is no dirt! I exclaimed. But I could not understand how it is possible to collect water in tubes. She explained to me how it was done, but I could not understand anything because my scientific knowledge was extremely limited. But she continued.

        - When another university found out about this, they decided to surpass them and do something even more extraordinary. They came up with a tool with which to collect as much solar heat as needed. And they kept warm to be given out to others on demand.

        While women were engaged in science, men were busy building military power. When they learned that women's universities had learned how to extract water from the atmosphere and collect solar heat, they only laughed at the university and called everything a "sentimental nightmare"!

        - Your achievements are amazing! But tell me, how did you manage to imprison your men in zenana? Did you catch them first?

        — No.

        — It is not possible that they would decide to exchange a free and free life for imprisonment in the four walls of zenana! They had to be outmaneuvered.

        — Yes, we outsmarted them!

        — But how? With the help of female warriors, I think?

        - No, without the use of force.

        — This cannot be. Men are stronger than women. Whereas?

        - Brain.

        — Even their brains are larger and heavier than those of a woman. Is not it?

        — Yes, but so what? And an elephant has a larger and heavier brain than a human. But a man can chain an elephant and dispose of it as he pleases.

        Well said, but tell me how it happened! I'm so eager to find out!

        - A woman's brain is somewhat faster than a man's brain. Ten years ago, when military officers referred to our scientific research as a "sentimental nightmare," some young girls wanted to object to these words. But both Madame Headmistresses stopped them and said that they should answer not in word, but, if possible, in deed. And they didn't have to wait long for that opportunity.

        — How cool! I clapped my hands heartily. “And now the proud gentlemen themselves see sentimental dreams!”

        - Soon people from a neighboring country appeared and took refuge with us. They got into trouble because they committed some political crime. The king, who thought more of power than wise government, asked our good queen to hand over his officers. She refused because it was against her principles to extradite the refugees. And because of the refusal, the king declared war on our country.

        Our military officers immediately jumped up and went on a campaign against the enemy. But the enemy was too strong. Undoubtedly, our soldiers fought bravely. But in spite of all their courage, the foreign army was advancing and taking over our country.

        Almost all of our men went to war; there were not even sixteen-year-old boys left in the houses. Most of our warriors were killed, and the rest retreated, and the enemy was twenty-five miles from the capital.

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        A council of wise ladies took place in the queen's palace, discussing what needs to be done to save the state. Some offered to go to war as soldiers, others objected and said that women did not know how to fight with sabers and guns and were not used to weapons at all. Still others regretted their bodily weakness.

        “If you lack the physical strength to save the state,” the queen said, “try to think of something.

        There was dead silence for several minutes. Her Majesty again said: "I will be forced to commit suicide if both the state and my honor are lost."

        Then the headmistress of the second university (where the sun's heat was collected), who had been silently thinking about something throughout the meeting, noticed that they were completely defeated, and there was no hope left. However, there is a plan she would like to resort to, and this will be her first and last attempt; if the plan fails, there is nothing left but to commit suicide. All present solemnly swore that they would not allow themselves to be enslaved, no matter what happened.

        The queen thanked them heartily and asked the headmistress to explain her plan. The headmistress stood up and said, “Before we enter the battlefield, the men must be in zenans. I will offer a prayer for the Purdah.” “Yes, of course,” Her Majesty replied.

        The next day the queen ordered all the men to hide in zenans for the sake of honor and freedom. Tired and wounded, they took this order for good! They bowed and entered the zenans without a single word of protest. For they were convinced that the country could no longer be saved.

        The headmistress then marched to the battlefield along with two hundred female students, and once there, they directed all the beams of sunlight and heat they had gathered at the enemy.

        The enemy soldiers could not bear so much light and heat. In a panic, they fled, in confusion, not understanding how to cope with this wild heat. As they fled, leaving their guns and other implements, the sun's heat and light burned them. And since then no one else has tried to attack our country.

        — And since then your compatriots have never tried to get out of zenana?

        — Yes, they wanted freedom. Some police commissioners and district magistrates wrote to the Queen that the military officers did indeed deserve imprisonment for their defeat, but unlike them, they never neglected their duties, so they should not be punished, and they asked to be returned to their places. Her Majesty sent a circular to them and hinted that they would be sent for when their services were needed, but for now they should remain in their places. Now they are accustomed to the purdah and have stopped murmuring at their imprisonment, and we call this system "mardana" instead of "zenana".

        “But how do you manage,” I asked Sister Sarah, “to do without police or magistrates in case of robbery or murder?”

        - Since we organized the mardana, there are no more crimes or abuses, so we don't need policemen to look for the guilty, and we don't need magistrates to try criminals.

        — It's very good indeed. I suppose, even if you have some intruder, you will immediately reason with her. Since you could easily win a decisive victory without shedding a single drop of blood, you will get rid of criminals and crimes without the slightest difficulty.

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        Series of 27 Linocuts
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        - And now, dear Sultana, tell me, will you stay here or will you return to the living room? she asked.

        — Your kitchen is no worse than a royal boudoir! I replied with a smile, “but we should leave her, for the gentlemen must be angry with me for distracting them from their direct duties for so long. We both laughed merrily.

        - How delighted and amazed my friends will be when I return and tell them about distant Ladyland, where ladies rule the country and manage all public affairs, while gentlemen are kept in mardans to take care of children, cook and perform any homework; and cooking there is so easy that it's just a pleasure!

        — Yes, tell them everything you saw here.

        - Tell me, please, how do you work the land, how do you plow and do heavy manual labor?

        - Our fields are cultivated by electricity, which serves as a source of energy for other work, we also use it for transportation by air. We don't have railroads or paved streets.

        “That's why there are no street or train accidents,” I continued. “Are you suffering from a lack of rainwater?”

        - Since the "water ball" was installed - not at all. You see a big ball and tubes attached to it. With their help, we can extract as much rainwater as we need. And we don't suffer from rain or thunderstorms. We are all busy making nature give us what we need. We have no time to quarrel, for we never sit idle. Our noble queen is very fond of botany, her dream is to turn the whole country into one great garden.

        - Great idea. And what do you eat?

        - Fruit.

        — How does your country stay cool in the heat? For us, summer rain is a natural blessing.

        - When the heat becomes unbearable, we sprinkle the ground with numerous jets of water from artificial fountains. And in cold weather, we heat the rooms with solar heat.

        She showed me a bathroom with a removable roof. She could take a shower whenever she wanted, simply by removing the top (which was like the lid of a box) and turning the faucet on the shower tube.

        - You are lucky people! I exclaimed. And you don't need anything. What do you believe, may I ask?

        — Our religion is based on Love and Truth. It is our religious duty to love one another and to be absolutely truthful. If someone lies, she or he. ..

        — Punishable by death?

        - No, not by death. We do not like to kill God's creation, especially man. The liar is asked to leave this country for good and never to return.

        — Do they forgive a criminal?

        — Yes, if she sincerely regrets what happened.

        — Are you not allowed to see other men, except for relatives?

        - With no one except the prescribed circle of relatives.

        - Our circle of relatives is very limited; even cousins ​​are not considered as such.

        - But ours is very wide; a distant relative is treated the same as a sibling.

        - This is very good. I see that purity itself rules your country. I would like to see a virtuous queen who is so wise and far-sighted and who came up with these rules.

        “Okay,” Sister Sarah said.

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        Series of 27 Linocuts
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        She then screwed two seats onto the square plank. Then she attached two smooth, polished balls to this board. When I asked what the balloons were for, she said they were hydrogen balloons that defy gravity. The balls were of different capacities - for raising different masses. After that, she attached two wing-shaped blades to the air machine, which, she said, work with electricity. After we settled down, she touched the handle, and the blades moved and began to rotate faster and faster. First we climbed to a height of about six or seven feet, and then we flew. And I did not have time to understand that we were flying, as we ended up at the royal garden.

        My friend lowered the air car by switching the engine, and when the car touched the ground, the engine stopped and we got out.

        I saw from the air machine how the queen was walking in the garden with her little daughter (who was four years old) and the ladies-in-waiting.

        — Hello! And you are here! exclaimed the queen to her sister Sarah. I was introduced to Her Majesty, who received me cordially without any ceremony.

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