To Tell Anew: Fresh Perspectives on Persian Narrative

Abstract

…] when some fool kicks up a commotion and a throng of likeminded people gathers round him, […] he regales them with such things as,"In a certain sea, I saw an island, and five hundred of us landed on that island; we baked bread and set up cooking pots, and when the fire got going and its heat reached down into the ground, it moved, we looked, and lo and behold, the island was a fish."