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Iran? How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting?
Better go drunk and begging round the taverns.
Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours
Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar.
When once you hear the roses are in bloom,
Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine;
Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell-
These are but fairy-tales, forget them all." (From the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám)
Tomb of Omar Khayyam in Neishapuri, Iran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Khayam.jpg
Why is such a one so celebrated in the Islamic republic?
Better go drunk and begging round the taverns.
Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours
Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar.
When once you hear the roses are in bloom,
Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine;
Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell-
These are but fairy-tales, forget them all." (From the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám)
Tomb of Omar Khayyam in Neishapuri, Iran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Khayam.jpg
Why is such a one so celebrated in the Islamic republic?