One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, Vol 5 of 16 by Anonymous
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
500+ nights into the relentless storytelling. More lessons learned:
– If you follow through on your curiosity against your better judgement, don’t fret too much about it. You were probably destined to act in such a way, anyway.
– The full moon is the yardstick for beauty. Anyone beautiful is to be compared to it.
– There is a lot of excessive weeping, buffeting of faces, strewing dust upon one’s head, tearing of one’s raiments, fainting, excessive rejoicing and whatnot. Apparently people were a lot more expressive in those time and at those places (at least compared to Sweden of today).
– Always be polite and eloquent, and kings may reward you generously merely for happening upon you.
