A brief list of sources that provided the most beans: A Thousand and One Nights (uncensored), Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the Old Testament, the Koran, W. A. Clouston’s Flowers from a Persian Garden, Italo Calvino’s Italian Folktales, Kalila wa Dimna (uncensored), Ahmad al-Tifashi’s The Delight of Hearts, Ibn Hazm’s The Ring of the Dove, Mahmoud Khalil Saab’s Stories and Scenes from Mount Lebanon, Homer’s Iliad, Jim Crace’s The Devil’s Larder, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise, Ida Alamuddin’s Maktoob, Shakespeare’s plays, numerous Internet folktale sites, and quite a few books of Syrian and
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