![]() ![]() I summarize each in its own section below. This frame includes 3 related but independent stories, each with its own title - "The Tale of the Fortunate Rope-Maker", "The Tale of the Weaver Who Stole From Himself", & "The Tale of the Wife & Her Lover". This is the story to which the title applies. ![]() ![]() Next frame is the protagonist's story - how Fuwaad ended up getting arrested by Caliph's cops. Story summary.Outermost story frame is tiny - Fuwaad ibn Abbas (the narrator) is pleading why he is innocent & should be released by the Caliph (English distortion of "khalifaa", sort of a king) in Baghdad. It covers a theme I've already seen in at least two stories by Chiang - " What's Expected of Us", & " Story of Your Life" - interaction between events happening in different times.Īnd yet it offers a very different plot - ability to change yourself as well as history by influencing events of the past (in spite of constant denials by author that past cannot be altered by visitors from future).įull text of this story is available for free download ( text, MP3 ( via teaoodle)). This extremely readable story is written in the style of ancient framed folktales - story within story, & with a moral. ![]()
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