Tawfek’s Reviews > Arabian Nights; Volume 2 of 16 > Status Update

Yay i finished it, but i am so sleepy after the feast i had for dinner today, the review might be long and might not, we will see but tonight!

When i drew up her shift from the roof of her coynte,
I found it as strait as my mind and my money:
So i drove it half-way, and she sighed a loud sigh
Quoth I, 'why this sigh?' 'for the rest of it, honey!'
(first dirty couplet in the nights, it's very explicit in Arabic, the only way this could the same if coynte was explicit dirty word in 1850,i felt the tune of the couplet abruptly cut as well)

She lords it o'er our hearts in grass green gown.
With buttons loose and locks long flowing down.
Quoth I, 'what is thy name?' Quoth she, I'm she,
Who burns the lover-heart live coals upon:
I made my plaint to her of loving lowe
Laughed she, 'to stone though moanest useless moan!'
Quoth I, 'An be of hardest stone thy heart,
Allah drew sweetest spring from hardest stone.'

This dude will be the death of me, he has a date with a girl, who keeps tricking him by coming early and leaving a feast for him, first day he eats and sleeps, she doesn't wake him up, second day he knows the feast is a trick, but he can't hold himself back eventually and eats anyway and sleeps again 😂

By what thine eyelids show of kohl and coquetry!
By what thy shape displays of lissome symmetry!
By what thy liplets store of honey dew and wine!
By what thy mind adorns of gracious kindly gree!
To me thy sight dream-visioned, O my hope! Exceeds
The happiest escape from horriblest injury.
(kohl is the arabic name for eyeliner)

The prince took pity on a guy crying his heart out, so he talked to him and ordered a chair setup and a carpet put down, and sat on the chair and ordered the sad guy to sit on the carpet 😂
These fucking pricks man.

So Close but i can't continue, My mind is overthinking things outside of the book i am reading.
There was a scene, about how the prince and his entourage came to a plain, full of wild animals, they surrounded it with wires, and killed all the animals inside.
The description made it feel like they didn't even know what these animals were.
It made me sad honestly, how many animals we might have drove to extinction.

Now i remember why this story was the longest in the nights, and i probably never finished it the first time, They insert another big story close to the point where you think it was going to end, so now you gotta read another big story, before getting to the end of this one lol
Old School Cliffhangers.

On the glancing racer outracing glance
He speeds, as though he would collar doom:
His steed's black coat is of darkest jet,
And likest night in her nightliest gloom:
Whose neigh sounds glad to the hearer's ears
Like thunders rolling in thund'rous boom:
If he race the wind he will lead the way,
And the lightning flash will behind him loom.
(horse poetry YAY)