An early preproduction concept art of S2 by Louis Ralph before rewrites - in all likelihood the historical flashback Arabian Nights :)
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Arabian Nights - 'Lovers meet in the Graveyard' by Kay Nielsen, 1957
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One Thousand and One Nights: The Empress and the Cat Thief
the cat thief played her cards right and was granted one night with the empress. her target is the rare set of jewellery adorning the empress鈥檚 body, but tonight she might encounter an even better surprise.
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Arabian Nights by Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1974
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Consider Scheherazade, whose name meant "city-born" and who was without a doubt a big-city girl, crafty, wisecracking, by turns sentimental and cynical, as contemporary a metropolitan narrator as one could wish to meet. Scheherazade, who snared the prince in her never-ending story. Scheherazade, telling stories to save her life, setting fiction against death, a Statue of Liberty built not of metal but of words. Scheherazade, who insisted, against her father's will, on taking her place in the procession into the king's deadly boudoir. Scheherazade, who set herself the heroic task of saving her sisters by taming the king. Who had faith, who must have had faith, in the man beneath the murderous monster and in her own ability to restore him to his true humanity, by telling him stories.
Salman Rushdie, "Wonder Tales" in Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
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Il fiore delle mille e una notte (1974) // dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
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L茅on Georges Jean-Baptiste Carr茅 (1878 ~ 1942)聽1926 illustration for 'The Book of One Thousand and One Nights'
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'Stories from the Arabian Nights', illustration by Edmund Dulac, 1911
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Magic carpet ride. One Thousand and One Nights - 1906.
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