The Arabian Nights

What Changed in the King

Last Night 6, The Pardon

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A woman holding a baby stands before the king, surrounded by children and other women.
Illustration by William Harvey, Lane's Thousand and One Nights, Chatto and Windus, 1883 (wood engravings of 1838 to 1840)Original

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On the thousandth night Shahrazad stopped. What is left in the place after that is the king. This chapter looks at him.

The book writes that he was different. What it shows to say so is the matter of this chapter. There are only two things.

One is what he said. The other is what he did not do. Between the two are the things this book does not say.

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