1001 Nights

Good Morning Kids! Now its my time to learn something from your classmate Mishma and I have a commentary at it. She tells the story of A Thousand and One Nights:

In the original tale, a king, after finding out that his wife was unfaithful, develops a bitter and cynical view on women, and decides to punish all women in his land, by marrying and then killing them the next day. But one day, one of his brides, decides to tell him a story. She ends the night in a cliffhanger, which stops the king from killing her, so that she can continue the story the next day. Likewise, for a thousand and one nights, the woman kept telling stories, ending them in cliffhangers and starting stories within stories. All of these stories had unreliable narrators, complicated situations and morals, and made the king realize the complexity of human nature, and therefore that it's unfair to punish all women for one person's crime, so after his wife finishes the stories, he ends up making her his queen, and stopped his cruel practice.

The bible, of course tells of A Thousand Years. So in the Arabian tale, the writer just changed years to nights. A thousand years in the Bible is the benchmark for a lifetime since the oldest man to have lived is Methuselah who was reported to die at 969 years old. Whether humans can live to that age is not we are talking about here, leave them to the archaeologists. We are saying A Thousand Years is forever. In saying A Thousand and One, meanwhile is to say forever and a day. Like everything and more. The best becomes better. I know this is exaggeration but who can blame romantic people.