100 arabian nights and 1night

[bob mccart]

I may be hoping, but am I the only one to see connections between arabian
nights tales and Gravity's Rainbow. Sure there's the connection of bigness,
of crudness of drugs but what I think is intersting and maybe even useful is
the way Pynchon and the Night's authors both get at things by telling two
stories with similar themes. I havnt read much of the nights yet, but
there's certainly bits where two different stories are about the same thing,
just as in GR there are those two sections right next to each other that
seem different yet you're sure Pynchon's getting at something in a
subliminal surreal way. This sounds terrible when I write it. But anybody
read some of the tales?
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