But as it seemed impossible that they should ever know the truth, he fabricated aloud the simplest explanation: "No doubt your grandmother came in yesterday on her way back from the asylum, to say good day to Uncle Macquart, before he had begun drinking.

Those killing bows which you deliberately fabricated and lodged like bright butterflies among the dark waves of your hairwho were you thinking of as you made and posed them?

A fantastic framework, with a hint of magic, fabricated expressly to give unity to a series of tales, half exemplary, half satirical, points directly to an ultimate connection with the narratives of Scheherezade and Sutlememé.