As both a retired professor of literature and a folklorist, I enjoyed this article. It reminded me of the Riddle of the Three Caskets in Shakespeare's _Merchant of Venice_. As to the title of the essay, a parody is the following: A Christian, a Muslim, and a Jew walk into a bar. The bartender asks: "Hey, haven't I met you in a joke before?"
The "Decameron" is one of the foundational documents in the creation of the modern short story.
As both a retired professor of literature and a folklorist, I enjoyed this article. It reminded me of the Riddle of the Three Caskets in Shakespeare's _Merchant of Venice_. As to the title of the essay, a parody is the following: A Christian, a Muslim, and a Jew walk into a bar. The bartender asks: "Hey, haven't I met you in a joke before?"