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Antjie Krog

Critical Quarterly

The Book of a Thousand Eyes Le Spleen de Paris a record of one ofLyn Hejinian Written over the course of two decades, The Book of a Thousand Eyes was begun as an homage to Scheherazade, the heroine of The Arabian Nights who, through her nightly tale telling, saved her culture and her own life by teaching a powerful and murderous ruler to abandon cruelty in favor of wisdom and benevolence. Hejinians book is a compendium of 'night works'lullabies, bedtime stories, insomniac lyrics, nonsensical mumblings, fairy tales,