B1033 <=> B1035 (BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 1034)

“’We usually make the meeting place of our club a spare classroom or dormitory, but more often the toilets.

“’The members of the men’s club have in general the following privileges: they have the right to choose and to command as many as they like and whom they please of the pupils who are members of the women’s club; and these latter are obliged always to gratify every wish of the given member of the men’s club and do their utmost to make her stay in our boarding school easy for her, as, for example, to make her bed in the morning, copy her lessons, share with her the presents sent from home, and so on and so forth.

“’The chief occupation in the clubs consists of reading together forbidden books procured by one of the pupils. They chiefly read one very rare manuscript, obtained with money raised by a general institute subscription, wherein is expounded in detail the whole of the teaching of the famous poetess Sappho.’

“I must tell you, my boy, that Sappho was the name of a certain Greek poetess who first discovered there on your planet the ‘way to real happiness’ for many women of the Greek-Roman as well as of the contemporary civilization.

“This great creator of ‘women’s happiness’ had her dwelling place on the island of ‘Lesbos,’ from which word originated the title of those women who have already become worthy to understand and to actualize during the process of their existence the teaching of this remarkable woman, and who at the present time are called ‘Lesbians.’