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< a href= https://gutenberg.org/files/3442/3442-h/3442-h.htm#chap07> ALI NUR AL-DIN AND MIRIAM THE GIRDLE-GIRL is one of the best, definitely most poetic, story in the Thousand nights and a nigh.

Read or (listen to) the whole thing.


https://ia600805.us.archive.org/20/items/thousand_nights_and_a_night_volume_8_1708_librivox/thousandnights8_32_anonymous_128kb.mp3

Vol 8. https://librivox.org/the-book-of-the-thousand-nights-and-a-night-volume-8-by-anonymous/

p.s. the story can be used to illustrate the contrast between investment and consumption.
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This is probably the most beautiful illustrations to Red Riding Hood that I've ever seen. The wolf figure is pure evil and it oozes temptation mixed with deception.



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LITTLE RIDING HOOD

The girl lay asleep,
Lay asleep in the wood . . .
Wolves didn’t eat her,
men ate her!


--- Francisco Villaespesa (1954)
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Не Спиноза, но тоже неплохие стихи:


...
Здесь буйствуют кузнечики в тиши.

В шесть вечера, как вследствии атомной

войны, уже не встретишь ни души.

Луна вплывает, вписываясь в темный

квадрат окна, что твой Экклезиаст.

Лишь изредка несущийся куда-то

шикарный бьюик фарами обдаст

фигуру Неизвестного Солдата.


Здесь снится вам не женщина в трико,

а собственный ваш адрес на конверте.

Здесь утром, видя скисшим молоко,

молочник узнает о вашей смерти.

Здесь можно жить, забыв про календарь,

глотать свой бром, не выходить наружу

и в зеркало глядеться, как фонарь

глядится в высыхающую лужу.

--- Иосиф Бродский.
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“The flowers overhead
Are dancing in play;
My thoughts are with thee,
In thy home far away.”

The Master said: “Her thoughts were not with him, or how could he be far away?”


--- The Sayings of Confucius. 9:30.
https://www.bartleby.com/44/1/9.html

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[8] Tzu-hsia asked: “What is the meaning of:
‘Her cunning smiles,
Her dimples light,
Her lovely eyes,
So clear and bright,
The ground, not yet
With colours dight’?”

The Master said: “Colouring follows groundwork.”
“Then does courtesy follow after?” said Tzu-hsia.
“Shang,” 6 said the Master, “thou hast hit my meaning! Now I can talk of poetry to thee.”

--- The Sayings of Confucius.

https://www.bartleby.com/44/1/3.html

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