Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion
Posted on 02/04/2012 by Juan
Where’s the smoke
from my fire around here?
Where’s the profit
on my investment around here?
As for the guy
who called me a bar fly,
now really, where’s the bar
around here?
trans. Juan Cole
from Whinfield 13
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Almost as good as Bukowski.
and who isn’t a gadfly?
Is that where the saying Where there’s smoke there’s fire comes from? What a witty translation. I love Omar Khayyam but Edward FitzGerald’s translation must a rather Victorian version of it! Like reading Proust translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. Thank you for this!