One thousand and one nights series#

Kunstformen der Natur (1904) by Ernst Haeckel ''MasвЂud,' the queen called, at which a black slave came up to her and, after they had embraced each other, he lay with her, while the other slaves lay with the slave girls and they spent their time kissing, embracing, fornicating and drinking wine until the end of the day.' This invention-far superior to the future and analogous devices of Chaucer's pious cavalcade or Giovanni Boccaccio's epidemic.' -' The Translators of 'The Thousand and One Nights'' (1934) by Jorge Luis Borges

One thousand and one nights series#

'The Fihrist narrates the opening tale of the series the king's heartbroken oath that every night he will wed a virgin whom he will have beheaded at dawn, and the resolution of Scheherazade, who diverts him with marvelous stories until a thousand nights have revolved over the two of them and she shows him his son.

'I remembered too that night which is at the middle of the Thousand and One Nights when Scheherazade (through a magical oversight of the copyist) begins to relate word for word the story of the Thousand and One Nights, establishing the risk of coming once again to the night when she must repeat it, and thus on to infinityвЂ¦' -' The Garden of Forking Paths', Jorge Luis Borges 'And so King Shahryar kept Scheherazade alive as he eagerly anticipated each new story, until, one thousand and one adventurous nights, and three sons later, the King had not only been entertained but wisely educated in morality and kindness by Scheherazade who became his Queen.' -Sholem Stein