It kept Scheherazade alive through those one thousand and one nights - in the story.

但想象让谢赫拉莎德活过了那一千零一夜——在故事里。

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We assume that unless we're dealing with Scheherazade, it has to have an end, but at the same time we might well ask ourselves, why does it have a middle? What is the function of the middle with respect to a beginning and an end?

而且我们认定一定会有结尾，除非讲故事的是那个，《天方夜谭》中的苏丹新娘，但是我们要问自己了，为什么故事一定要有经过呢？,故事的经过对于开头结尾来说起到什么作用呢？

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In reinstalling the piece, she says that she couldn't help seeing the parallels between Scheherazade's plight and Matisse's own desperate situation.

WSJ: Matisse's The Thousand and One Nights in Pittsburgh

Isabel Allende, in The Stories of Eva Luna, creates a modern Scheherazade, who entertains her lover with stories conjured from her imagination.

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The second panel has been interpreted as a precursor of sorts to the artist's stark and curvaceous "Blue Nudes, " cutouts from 1952 and, perhaps, a reference to Scheherazade herself.

WSJ: Matisse's The Thousand and One Nights in Pittsburgh