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Letters and Notes

Letters and Notes Letters and Notes Dear Editor, In your introductory issue ( KronoScope, Vol. 1, No. 1-2)*, J. T. Fraser introduced sev- eral translations of Omar’s famous quatrain (English, German, French and Chinese.) There must surely exist many other versions, often in unlikely languages. I here sub- mit my own, in Irish Gaelic, and suggest you invite your readers to send in as many versions as they can muster. Perhaps on the tenth anniversary of KronoScope (2011), you could publish the whole collection. This would be a uniquely appropriate ges- ture for a journal devoted to time. Scriobh an méar gluiseacht, ’s ina dhiaidh sin Teann sé ar aghaidh, agus tógfaidh Ní naofacht ná meabhair é, ní bainfaidh Aon focal ná leath-line de do dheora. Robin Fox * J. T. Fraser writes of Omar Khayyam that he was “a philosopher of pantheistic persuasion, a man of mystical vision and a radical freethinker who protested against the narrowness, big- otry and hypocrisy of the orthodox Mullahs of his age . . . In his quatrains, as in Shakespeare’s sonnets, time is always present.” The moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: not all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Kronoscope Brill

Letters and Notes

Kronoscope , Volume 3 (1): 145 – Jan 1, 2003
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© 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1567-715x
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Letters and Notes Dear Editor, In your introductory issue ( KronoScope, Vol. 1, No. 1-2)*, J. T. Fraser introduced sev- eral translations of Omar’s famous quatrain (English, German, French and Chinese.) There must surely exist many other versions, often in unlikely languages. I here sub- mit my own, in Irish Gaelic, and suggest you invite your readers to send in as many versions as they can muster. Perhaps on the tenth anniversary of KronoScope (2011), you could publish the whole collection. This would be a uniquely appropriate ges- ture for a journal devoted to time. Scriobh an méar gluiseacht, ’s ina dhiaidh sin Teann sé ar aghaidh, agus tógfaidh Ní naofacht ná meabhair é, ní bainfaidh Aon focal ná leath-line de do dheora. Robin Fox * J. T. Fraser writes of Omar Khayyam that he was “a philosopher of pantheistic persuasion, a man of mystical vision and a radical freethinker who protested against the narrowness, big- otry and hypocrisy of the orthodox Mullahs of his age . . . In his quatrains, as in Shakespeare’s sonnets, time is always present.” The moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: not all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it

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Published: Jan 1, 2003

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