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‘Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is better than wine.” Unlikely as it may seem, this is the opening of a book found in the Bible.
Through a series of dialogues in eight pithy chapters, the Song of Songs tells the bucolic love tale of a young heroine and her shepherd paramour. And yet, the text is bewilderingly mysterious. The plot has neither a beginning nor end. At times the reader wonders who is speaking, and if the sequences are dreams or reality. Such chaos might represent the confusing delight…