some moderately absurd nitpicking

[tortoise]

1. The frame story of the Arabian Nights is set "at the time of the Sasanid dynasty" (224-651) -- i.e., sometime before the rise of Islam. A bunch of the internal stories mention Islam or are set during the reign of the caliph Harun al-Rashid (786-809). Are we to conclude that Shahrazad is a time-traveler

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[derakon]

Maybe the actual setting is Dragaera during the Phoenix Guards period. That could explain why it'd take hours to cover a few paragraphs.

[tortoise]

Or the manuscript we have is actually William Goldman's Good Parts version...