/lit/ - Literature

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Here you go, faithful ones:

https://docdro.id/x5Mn0mv

Chapter 1 starts on page 4, I can't stress that enough lol. It's the near-final draft, I went through it in the frenzy I had to finish up, still have work to do as you can see. I think it sounds far more concise than the last one, which droned on for much longer.

I put the book's preface in before chapter 1 as well, so you might get some perspective on what I'm doing (connecting the Islamic and the Iranian, as Ferdowsi did); the intro in a traditional Persian work is often wordy and stuffed with filler, so I'm satisfied with it there; the first page after the title page will be a table of contents, so people can navigate to chapter one directly.