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Jon Alston
Illustration by Modita Kathpalia
It is written it took 1001 nights for Scheherazade to win
over Shahryar, 1001 tales to calm his murderous temper
with incompletion. She told another story, after their nuptial.
With such a tradition of story, Shahryar desired
Scheherazade’s entertainment to continue. So she revealed
to him this dream:
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