Re: Genre Study 2: Fantasy


Wed, 10 May 1995 22:59:32 GMT

Gerry Kevin Wilson (whizzard@uclink.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: In article <3opdge$jjh@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu>,
: Phil Goetz <goetz@cs.buffalo.edu> wrote:
: >Required reading? I hope not. It's huge! Has anybody here actually
: >read the whole thing? It has 1001 stories in it! It's, like, 10 volumes!
: >More than half of them are about sex.
: Heh, you just don't have any patience. Would I be recommending them if I
: hadn't read them? Of course, it does get kind of irritating when you're
: recursed into a story within a story within a story within a story within
: a story. I've counted up to six levels of recursions. Yeesh.

Project Gutenberg has a shortened version, The Arabian Nights
Entertainments, with ALOT of editing. Try ftp.cdrom.com /pub/gutenberg
or something along those lines, then find the filename arabn11.

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