Now, I'm mostly positive there's a mathematical theme there, (more from instinct than anything else) particularly in light of Omar's observations and subsequent controversy of whether he is the subversive libertineous poet or was actually imputing that the divine is in the little everyday things and pleasure but considering his work with parallel postulates I wonder if he was in a sense visualizing the form through the quatrains. I think more visually-oriented thinkers tend to do that quite naturally. But I can also see the problem of tracking it down as the works available have been pretty corrupted with spurious additions, the questions of authenticity regarding what is truly his, and then the bigger problem of simply being able to hear elements like the rhyme scheme (music) in the lines. Even worse, how dissimilar is medieval Farsi to that of the present? Boy, that's one for an enterprising grad student, I guess. And I imagine she or he would have to be an indigenous speaker of Farsi, for sure.
And that's not me! Oh well, thanks Professor Cole, I got a lot out of it.
Professor Cole, what is your take on Omar Khayyam's wine being a metaphor rather than as a literal "spirit"?
That he were so high-minded about the Sullivan Campaign
Now, I'm mostly positive there's a mathematical theme there, (more from instinct than anything else) particularly in light of Omar's observations and subsequent controversy of whether he is the subversive libertineous poet or was actually imputing that the divine is in the little everyday things and pleasure but considering his work with parallel postulates I wonder if he was in a sense visualizing the form through the quatrains. I think more visually-oriented thinkers tend to do that quite naturally. But I can also see the problem of tracking it down as the works available have been pretty corrupted with spurious additions, the questions of authenticity regarding what is truly his, and then the bigger problem of simply being able to hear elements like the rhyme scheme (music) in the lines. Even worse, how dissimilar is medieval Farsi to that of the present? Boy, that's one for an enterprising grad student, I guess. And I imagine she or he would have to be an indigenous speaker of Farsi, for sure.
And that's not me! Oh well, thanks Professor Cole, I got a lot out of it.