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Oriental
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The Oriental motif which emerged in Calypso ― although in Proteus Stephen *almost* remembered a recurring dream involving, or associated with, Haroun al Raschid, who reigned in Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age and is closely associated with the Book of One Thousand and One Nights ― coils cloyingly throughout Lotus Eaters, always carrying with it a wafting insinuation of exotic sensuality, particularly of a sexual proclivity.