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Monday, March 1, 2010

Alf Post wa Post: 1,001 Posts

If the counter is right the post just previous is my millennial post, my thousandth, and perhaps I should have noted it, but there's certainly a precedent for noting, in a Middle Eastern context, the thousand and first. 1,001 nights: 1,001 posts. So noted. Alf layla wa layla; Alf post wa post.

And on the one thousand and second night, Shahrazad told this story to King Shahryar . . .

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