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(571) But she pressed me, saying, “You must butcher this bull,” and I bound him and took the knife… I took the knife to the bull’s throat, and as he was gnawing against the rope that bound him and mercilessly … Continue reading →

Then the third old man said, “Demon, don’t disappoint me. If I told you a story that is stranger and more amazing than the first two would you grant me one-third of your claim on him for his crime?” The … Continue reading →

“King Yunan, who was beginning to feel angry, replied, ‘You are right, vizier. The sage may well be what you say and may have come to destroy me. He who has cured me with something to hold can kill me … Continue reading →

Taken from pg 589, where King Yunan plans on executing the sage who cured him: Then the sage added, “Is this my reward from your Majesty? It is like the reward of the crocodile.” The king asked, “What is the … Continue reading →

Then the demon released the merchant and departed. The merchant turned to the three old men and thanked them, and they congratulated him on his deliverance and bade him good-bye. Then they separated, and each of them went on his … Continue reading →

The king, the enchanted young man, and the fisherman lived peacefully thereafter, and the fisherman become one of the richest men of his time, with daughters married to kings. But morning overtook Shahrazad, and she lapsed into silence. Then Dinarzad … Continue reading →

(Page 577) The merchant himself went back home to his family, his wife, and his children, and he lived with them until the day he dies. But this story is not as strange or as amazing as the story of … Continue reading →

It is related, O happy King, that the first old man with the deer approached the demon and, kissing his hands and feet, said, “Fiend and King of the demon kings, if I tell you what happened to me and that deer, and you find it strange and amazing, indeed stranger and more amazing than what happened to you and the merchant, will you grant me a third of your claim on him for his crime and guilt?” The demon replied, “I will.” The old man said: That deer is my grandson, a former chamberlain to King Khosrau II. Demon, my grandson was married to a woman that came from a humble family and … Continue reading →

(beginning on 566) [The vizier warned,] “If you don’t relent, I shall do to you what the merchant did to his wife.” [Shahrazad] said, “Such tales don’t deter me from my request. You ignore an alternate ending of the tale: … Continue reading →

Libre de la memoria y de la esperanza, ilimitado, abstracto, casi futuro, el muerto no es un muerto:  es la muerte. Como el Díos de los místicos de Quien deben negarse todos los predicados, el muerto ubicuamente ajeno no es … Continue reading →