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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in great condition. Some light pencil annotations could be erased. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Sultan summons the poor man and demands to know the secret of his wife’s happiness. ‘Very simple’ he replies. ‘I feed her meat of the tongue.’ The Sultan sends out for all the tongues money can buy-ox tongues and lambs’ tongues and larks’ tongues; still his sad Sultana with- ers away. He orders his litter makes her change places with the poor man’s wife; she immediately starts to thrive becoming the picture of health plumper rosier gayer. Meanwhile in the palace her replacement languishes and soon has become as scrawny and miserable as the former queen. For the tongue meats that the poor man feeds the women are not material of course. They are fairy tales stories jokes songs he nourishes them on talk he wraps them in language; he banishes melancholy by refusing silence Storytelling makes women thrive – and not exclusively women the Kenyan fable implies but other sorts of people too even sultans. (MP)