For our second reading of the Arabian Nights, I decided to pick up from the first tale and read in chronological order the next three (since it seemed that a large number of the class read the first few begining stories, and this would lend some common ground). I attempted to read the first tale on the ELF site in Burton's translation, but could not find in myself a willingness to continue after the paragraph of all-caps. Instead, I read the Lang translations of: "The Story of the Merchant and the Genius" and "The Story of the First Old Man and of the Hind" and "The Story of the Second Old Man, and of the Two Black Dogs"

PLEASE provide me with feedback on my cake project...  What did you like?  What didn't you like?  What might I do differently next time?  How do you feel about me baking my final project for our literature course?

Also, see my blog for more on the cake project

Notes for an Evolving Systems conversation related to Chance: Its meaning and significance
Paul Grobstein
20 April 2010

(on line forum at /exchange/evolsys/chance10)

The place I would like to get to and why ...

"In 1984 Muhsin Mahdi, a professor of Arabic literature at Harvard University, published a scholarly edition of the Nights which “will shape the course of subsequent scholarship on the Arabic text.” He based his edition on Galland, introduced corrections from eight other mss."

My copy of Arabian Nights was translated by Hussain Haddawy, who used Muhsin Mahdi's text.