There's a whole slew of
wonderful speculation of flying
in a fanciful way. Gulliver is one
of the central examples; Swift
has the hum of Arabian Nights in
his ear with Gulliver's Travels.
The difference is in scale -
Gulliver as a kind of Sinbad kind
of figure, the way he is picked
up and carried. Just to finish up
with Scheherazade, I do think
that The Arabian Nights could be
considered as a great book on
women's position in the world.
Marina Warner
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