The Arabian Nights

What the Nights Did

Closing, Forty-Five Chapters in One Line

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A jinni with a sword stands listening, while old men and the merchant sit around him telling their tales.
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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This is where the book ends. No new story arrives in this chapter. Forty four chapters run into one line, and then one question.

The question is this. Inside this book, what did stories actually do? Before saying they have power, count what they did.

This book looks like a book that believes in stories. And it keeps one place inside it that says the opposite. The answer has to come after counting that place too.

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