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Feb 16, 2010 16:06

After reading an old version of the 'Tale of the Magic Lamp' (AKA Aladdin) from my 1001 Arabian Nights book I just would like to say Aladdin is a jerk.

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a_white_rain February 16 2010, 06:14:34 UTC
details plz

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talymil February 16 2010, 22:52:32 UTC
Hmm I suppose there is a dissonance between now and when it was first written and now also doing questionable stuff and getting away with it is matter of course for protagonists of fairy tales but anyway ( ... )

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Part 2 talymil February 16 2010, 22:56:51 UTC
Anyway the time of the wedding comes and Aladdin becomes a new person with wishes for new clothes and the "bestest pony evar with a shiny shiny harness" that people who knew him as the little shit that gallivanted around don't recognise him ( ... )

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