Status Updates From شاهنامه: دوره ۸ جلدی

"a man who disobeys God's commands abandons himself to bewilderment."

I'm always impressed by how Muslim theology seems much closer to ethics than the transcendental morality that Europe and by extension America has been cursed with since Christianity and probably neoplatonism if you wanna go that far back.

Made the mistake of getting 200 pages into this 900+ page translation and learning that the bastard editors excluded the introduction which has the Shahnameh's sources, cosmology, and acknowledgement of its patrons. IF YOUR EDITION IS ABRIDGED FUCKING LABEL IT AS ABRIDGED.

حقیقتا پلات توییست و درامایی که شاهنامه تا الان داشته رو ۱۰۰ تا رمان معروف معاصر نداشتن :))
واکنش فردوسی وقتی میبینه ۳۰ سال وقت گذاشته شعر سروده که ۱۰۰ها سال بعد یکی از همشهری هاش از اصطلاح پلات توییست برای توصیف کتابش استفاده کنه:

Rudabeh lets down her hair for Zal to climb, Rapunzel style, but Zal declines and instead becomes…Spiderman? “And with a bound he swung himself onto the roof.”