arabian nights
Heikki Raudaskoski
hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi
Sat Sep 9 03:14:20 CDT 2006
Of course, like Scheherazade, Reverend Cherrycoke keeps spinning his yarn night
after night for survival. Not to prevent decapitulation, however, but to get
food & lodging.
Heikki
P.S. Pasolini directed not only "Salo", but as Laura recalls, "1001 Nights" too.
> 2006/9/8, bob mccart <lebishar at gmail.com>:
> Have any of you read the Arabian Nights tales? Would you recommend them or
> a class dedicated to them? Real literature? Infleunce on western literature,
> specifically the picaresque and brazen humor illistrated in not only
> Candide, but an american author as well--
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