2021-09-26
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Принцесса Кузя
When it was One Hundred and Forty-third Night
I wonder how long it will take me to get through the whole book. Although its stories are quite wonderful, after a while the manner in which they are being told starts feeling repetitive and tiresome. Nevertheless, we must soldier on!
Then King Zibl Khan and all his officers and his retinue took horse and followed Princess Kuzia Fakan till they reached the pavilion of King Rumzan; and when entering they found him sitting with his nephew, Sultan Kanmakan.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3437/3437-h/3437-h.htm#chap03
I wonder how long it will take me to get through the whole book. Although its stories are quite wonderful, after a while the manner in which they are being told starts feeling repetitive and tiresome. Nevertheless, we must soldier on!
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This performance would not look out of place in the Arabian Nights.
upd: I was close with the Arabian Nights reference. According to Wikipedia, Dua Lipa "was born in London, England, the eldest child of Kosovo Albanian parents Anesa (née Rexha) and Dukagjin Lipa from Pristina, FR Yugoslavia (present-day Kosovo[a]). Her family is of Muslim heritage." She actually is from the Thousand Nights tradition.
upd: I was close with the Arabian Nights reference. According to Wikipedia, Dua Lipa "was born in London, England, the eldest child of Kosovo Albanian parents Anesa (née Rexha) and Dukagjin Lipa from Pristina, FR Yugoslavia (present-day Kosovo[a]). Her family is of Muslim heritage." She actually is from the Thousand Nights tradition.