The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
June 4, 2015 at 1:08 pm
(This post was last modified: June 4, 2015 at 1:09 pm by Pyrrho.)
(June 4, 2015 at 10:33 am)Alex K Wrote: Well, I don't know whether I was really taking time out. I was sitting between some trees in a shady garden, birds chirping, a piece of cake and a glass of wine in front of me. Writing a treatise on forces was just the right dose of physics to enrich such an idle afternoon...
That sounds lovely. The only way it could be much better would be to have an entire bottle of wine, and someone to share it with and...
From The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, as translated by Edward FitzGerald, fifth edition:
XII.
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness--
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
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"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
