Author: trans. by Husain Haddawy, based on the text of the 14th century Syrian manuscript edited by Muhsin Madhi

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• Andrei Codrescu (1)
  • IN: Whatever Gets You Through the Night (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Shahrayar.... then swore to marry for one night only and kill the woman the next morning, in order to save himself from the wickedness and cunning of women, saying, "There is not a single chaste woman anywhere on the entire face of the earth." ... the Vizier, who put the girls to death, had an older daughter called Shahrazad and a younger one called Dinarzad... Shahrazad... knew poetry by heart, had studied historical reports, and was acquainted witht he sayings of men and the maxims of sages and kings. She was intelligent, knowledgeable, wise and refined. She had read and learned... She said to her father, ... "I would like you to marry me to King Shahrayar, so that I may either succeed in saving the people or perish and die like the rest.
    FROM: The Arabian Nights, (1990), Book, NULL