17 Lorde,Uses of the Erotic. 18 Powerful literary examples include Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār, Dick Davis, and Afkham Darbandi,The Conference of the Birds, The Penguin Classics (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York: Penguin Books, 1984), l. 674 While I’m taking some distanc...