Omar Khayyam (196) “I’m going to completely divorce reason and religion”

Juan Cole 07/24/2012

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I’m going to murder my grief
with a bottle
of wine,
and make myself a wealthy man
with
a
fine
vintage.
First I’m going to completely divorce
reason
and
religion,
then I’m going to marry
a girl who
owns a
vineyard.

Translated by Juan Cole
from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 196

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page