Posts Tagged with "Persian"

Fitzgerald – Khayyam Verse

Saturday, May 1, 2010

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Fitzgerald – Khayyam Verse

Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart’s Desire!  Edward Fitzgerald’s translation of Omar Khayyam which rotates in my head.

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Doha to Mashhad

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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Doha to Mashhad

The wait in Doha, Qatar was a long one and there wasn’t much to do. The duty free shop was ridiculously expensive and there wasn’t anything I needed to buy. I ended up helping non-English and non-Arabic reading people by directing them to the toilets or WCs. Signs everywhere were in only those two languages. […]

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