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who can identify the source of this.
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"She comes like fullest moon on happy night,
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taper of waist--"
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"With shape of magic might."
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It's from the "Thousand and One Nights".
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Not the exact translation that I would have used,
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but it's got its own merits.
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And in a shocking non-upset, we have a winner.
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Garrett was a sixth-grade dropout.
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An unlikely guy to be quoting from a Harvard classic.
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The choice of material does make sense, though.
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The book is all about how Scheherazade