Happy Birthday, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton

[filkertom]

Hell of a life, sir.

What's your favorite Tale of the Arabian Nights? I'm an old Aladdin/Ali Baba man myself.

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[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I've always been fascinated by two stories. The Fisherman and the Djinn, and the Seven Voyages of Sindbad. But I can read Burton for hours, surfacing and wondering where the time went.

[ddrussianinja.livejournal.com]

I was in the musical Kismet, which is a nice little story about a very lucky poet.

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

The barber's six brothers.

Also, any tale featuring three sons, the eldest two of whom are described as clever but who don't even know enough to heed the warnings of a talking camel or share their bread with a wizened little beggar they meet en route to compete for the hand of the Sultan's daughter.

[kengr]

I'll let you know when I finish them. I'm only up to volume 3 (I own a hardcover set of the Burton translation "A Thousand Nights and a Night" as well as the "Supplemental Nights", takes up a couple of feet of shelf)