Bibliography:
Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang.
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Notes:
The big idea of this section is inception. The story is a story which tells a story which tells a story and then sometimes tells another story. All the stories have a happy ending, because Scheherazade is hoping her sultan will spare her life and giver her a happy ending as well. She addresses her stories to him, and her story hero's address the ones who wish to kill them in their storytelling. It is recursive (relating to or involving a program or routine of which a part requires the application of the whole, so that its explicit interpretation requires in general many successive executions) with the main part being
successive executions. Scheherazade's story will "return", if you will, until she comes back to her own story and it completes itself with a hopeful happy ending.
This type of storytelling is interesting, well thought out, and strategic in such a way that you must continue to listen. If I were to base a story off of
Arabian Nights, I would just make a whole new story to put other stories inside of.
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