Why is reading the entire Book of One Thousand and One Nights said to bring madness?
I read this off of Wikipedia under the article "Motif of harmful sensation", but it is said that reading all of the stories in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights is said to bring madness. I’ve tried to search for an explanation to this urban legend, but I haven’t found anything on it. Can anyone explain to me why it’s said to drive the reader mad should they read the entire book?
Though it is supposed to be fairy tales I found it to be the most misogynistic and racist book I have ever read. Perhaps that is part of the reason.
Though it is supposed to be fairy tales I found it to be the most misogynistic and racist book I have ever read. Perhaps that is part of the reason.
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maybe they mean all at once, it is 1,001 stories. Im sure you’d go mad from sleep deprivation, or something if you read the whole thing in one sitting.
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Perhaps it is because the characters within Scheherazade’s tales begin telling other characters a story of their own, and then that story may have another one told within it, and so forth and so forth. These stories within stories (within stories) result in a rich and layered narrative, which may be difficult to keep track of.
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Don’t know. Untrue anyway.
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