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| | The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Briefly, the object of this version is to show what "The Thousand Nights and a Night" really is. Not, however, for reasons to be more fully stated in the Terminal Essay, by straining verbum reddere verbo, but by writing as the Arab would have written in English. |
 | | It uses, like the holy books of the Hebrews, expressions "plainly descriptive of natural situations;" and it treats in an unconventionally free and naked manner of subjects and matters which are usually, by common consent, left undescribed. |
 | | Now it so happened that I went forth and was absent one whole year; and when I returned from my journey I came to her by night, and saw a fl slave lying with her on the carpet bed and they were talking, and dallying, and laughing, and kissing and playing the close buttock game. |
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