john barth/nights

[Mark Brawner]

On 9/28/06, Riot Riot <lyricsborn at gmx.de> wrote:
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> So far i´ve read End of the Road, Sot-Weed Factor and Coming Soon!!! and I´m reading Giles Goat-Boy at the moment. I liked SWF the best while CS!!! was a bore imo. None of the books involves the Arabian Nights...

'Coming Soon!!!' has a character name Sherry, "short for
Scheherazade," and indeed her namesake and her situation vis-a-via
King Shahryar is mentioned loads of times.  I think the Thousand and
One Nights are alluded to in every Barth book from Chimera on.