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Marc Chagall's Arabian Nights

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Arabian Nights. Pl. l. Kamar Al-Zaman and the Jeweller's Wife. "The boy displayed to the Dervish his bosom, saying, 'Look at my breasts which be goodlier than the breasts of maidens and my lipdews are sweeter than sugar candy...' " (1949/1.153)

Arabian Nights. Pl. 2. Kamar Al-Zaman and the Jeweler's Wife. "They were in forty pairs, thus numbering fourscore and in their midst a young lady, riding on a horse, her face unveiled..." (1949/1.154)

Arabian Nights. Pl. 3. Kamar Al-Zaman and the Jeweler's Wife. "Then he spent the night with her embracing and clipping..." (1949/1.155)

Arabian Nights. Pl. 4. Julnar the Sea-Born and her Son King Badr Basim of Persia "Disrobing her with his own hand, the King looked upon her body and saw it were a silvern ingot..." (1949/1.156)

Arabian Nights. Pl. 5. Julnar the Sea-Born and her Son King Badr Basim of Persia "So I came forth of the sea and sat down on the edge of an island in the moonshine..." (1949/1.157)

Arabian Nights. Pl. 6. Julnar the Sea-Born and her Son King Badr Basim of Persia "So she came down from the three and drawing near him strained him to her bosom..." (1949/1.158)

Arabian Nights. Pl. 7. Julnar the Sea-Born and her Son King Badr Basim of Persia "Then the old woman mounted on the Ifrit's back, taking her daughter behind her, and Ifrit flew off with them..." (1949/1.159A-L)

Arabian Nights. PL. 8. Abduhllah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman. "When Abdullah got the net ashore, he saw a man in it and he fled from him, but the man called out to him from within the net..." (1949/1.160)

Arabian Nights. Pl. 9. Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman. " Abdullah discovered before him and on his right and left mountains of water and solaced himself by gazing thereon and on the various sort of fish. Some of them favored buffaloes, others oxen and others dogs and yet others human beings..." (1949/1.161)

Arabian Nights. Pl. 10. The Tale of the Ebony Horse. "Now the King loved science and geometry and one festival day as he sat on his kingly throne there came in to him three wise men" (1949/1.162)

Arabian Nights. Pl. 11. The Tale of the Ebony Horse. "He went up to the couch and found a young lady asleep, chemised with her hair as she were the full moon rising over the Eastern horizon..." (1949/1.163)

Arabian Nights. Pl. 12. The Tale of the Ebony Horse. "Mounting the ebony horse he took her up behind him and made her fast to himself, binding her with strong bonds; after which he turned the shoulder-pin of ascent, and the horse rose him high in air..." (1949/1.164)

Arabian Nights. Pl. 13. Shaharazad's Night. "Then said the king in himself, 'By Allah, I will not slay her, until I have heard the next of her tale.' So they slept the rest of that night in mutual embrace till day finally brake..." (1949/1.165)

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