Image via WikipediaI couldn't keep to my M-W-F posting plan because I came up with another idea (and I can't shut up when that happens). Today I'm working on Scheherazade. She's in lots of places. Yet when I referred to her in my query, some people looked at me like I had three heads.
Scheherazade is the narrator of the 1001 Arabian Nights. We begin with the sultan of the story, who takes a different wife each night and kills her in the morning. However, when Scheherazade is chosen, things change. She tells him a different story each night, cleverly falling asleep and failing to finish it, leaving him with a cliffhanger. Of course, the sultan can't kill her because he must know the ending.
Some quick facts for you:
- Aladdin is one of Scheherazade's most famous stories.
- Scheherazade is a ballet and symphonic suite, written in 1888 by Rimsky-Korsakov. (Love this!)
- Binbir Gece, also with a Shehrazat, is a 2006 Turkish soap opera. A modern 1001 Arabian Nights á la Indecent Proposal, it's currently running rampant all over eastern Europe and the Middle East.
The night having arrived, the lady Scheherazade not only put the finishing stroke to the black cat and the rat (the rat was blue)but before she well knew what she was about, found herself deep in the intricacies of narration, having reference (if I am not altogether mistaken) to a pink horse (with green wings) that went, in a violent manner, by clockwork, and was wound up with an indigo key.
Your clue is: Tellmenow Isitsoörnot
This is Rimsky-Korsakov's haunting(and famous) piece, performed by the Moscow Symphony.
