Seven American nights and Nadan's failure to recognize the rubaiyat

Jeffery Wilson clueland.com · 08 Sep 2014, 05:14 · from 2014-September.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeffery Wilson clueland.com)
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 00:14:03 -0500
Subject: (urth) Seven American nights and Nadan's failure to recognize
 the rubaiyat
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On 9/7/2014 9:58 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> There is a point well before the replacement point posited by David
> Tallman extant on the Wolfe Wiki where the club footed American Actor
> playing Kreton quotes some lines about a potter's mistake from the
> Rubaiyat of Ommar Kayyam after they watch Mary Rose and Nadan is
> completely oblivious of its source, though it is a pretty prominent work
> of Persian literature.

As noted in an earlier discussion of the Rubaiyat appearing in the 
forematter of URTH, the English translation considerably differs from 
the original. Wolfe credits translator Fitzgerald rather than Omar 
Khayyam, and in *his* forematter, Fitzgerald calls it transmogrified 
rather than translated.

http://www.therubaiyat.com/compare.html

-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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