Podcasts about Rubaiyat

Ahead of her new book What's So Great About the Great Books? coming out in April, Naomi Kanakia and I talked about literature from Herodotus to Tony Tulathimutte. We touched on Chaucer, Anglo-Saxon poetry, Scott Alexander, Shakespeare, William James, Helen deWitt, Marx and Engels, Walter Scott, Les Miserables, Jhootha Sach, the Mahabharata, and more. Naomi also talked about some of her working habits and the history and future of the Great Books movement. Naomi, of course, writes Woman of Letters here on Substack.TranscriptHenry Oliver: Today, I am talking with Naomi Kanakia. Naomi is a novelist, a literary critic, and most importantly she writes a Substack called Woman of Letters, and she has a new book coming out, What's So Great About the Great Books? Naomi, welcome.Naomi Kanakia: Thanks for having me on.Oliver: How is the internet changing the way that literature gets discussed and criticized, and what is that going to mean for the future of the Great Books?Kanakia: How is the internet changing it? I can really speak to only how it has changed it for me. I started off as a writer of young adult novels and science fiction, and there's these very active online fan cultures for those two things.I was reading the Great Books all through that time. I started in 2010 through today. In the 2010s, it really felt like there was not a lot of online discussion of classic literature. Maybe that was just me and I wasn't finding it, but it didn't necessarily feel like there was that community.I think because there are so many strong, public-facing institutions that discuss classic literature, like the NYRB, London Review of Books, a lot of journals, and universities, too. But now on Substack, there are a number of blogs—yours, mine, a number of other ones—that are devoted to classic literature. All of those have these commenters, a community of commenters. I also follow bloggers who have relatively small followings who are reading Tolstoy, reading Middlemarch, reading even much more esoteric things.I know that for me, becoming involved in this online culture has given me much more of an awareness that there are many people who are reading the classics on their own. I think that was always true, but now it does feel like it's more of a community.Oliver: We are recording this the day after the Washington Post book section has been removed. You don't see some sort of relationship between the way these literary institutions are changing online and the way the Great Books are going to be conceived of in the future? Because the Great Books came out of a an old-fashioned, saving-the-institutions kind of radical approach to university education. We're now moving into a world where all those old things seem to be going.Kanakia: Yes. I agree. The Great Books began in the University of Chicago and Columbia University. If you look into the history of the movement, it really was about university education and the idea that you would have a common core and all undergraduates would read these books. The idea that the Great Books were for the ordinary person was really an afterthought, at least for Mortimer Adler and those original Great Books guys. Now, the Great Books in the university have had a resurgence that we can discuss, but I do think there's a lot more life and vitality in the kind of public-facing humanities than there has been.I talked to Irina Dumitrescu, who writes for TLS (The Times Literary Supplement), LRB (The London Review of Books), a lot of these places, and she also said the same thing—that a lot of these journals are going into podcasts, and they're noticing a huge interest in the humanities and in the classics even at the same time as big institutions are really scaling back on those things. Humanities majors are dropping, classics majors are getting cut, book coverage at major periodicals is going down. It does seem like there are signals that are conflicting. I don't really know totally what to make of it. I do think there is some relation between those two things.Ted Gioia on Substack is always talking about how culture is stagnant, basically, and one of the symptoms of that is that “back list” really outsells “front list” for books. Even in 2010, 50 percent of the books that were sold were front-list titles, books that had been released in the last 18 months. Now it's something like only 35 percent of books or something like that are front-list titles. These could be completely wrong, but there's been a trend.I think the decrease in interest in front-list books is really what drives the loss of these book-review pages because they mostly review front-list books. So, I think that does imply that there's a lot of interest in old books. That's what our stagnant culture means.Oliver: Why do you think your own blog is popular with the rationalists?Kanakia: I don't know for certain. There was a story I wrote that was a joke. There are all these pop nonfiction books that aim to prove something that seems counterintuitive, so I wrote a parody of one of those where I aim to prove that reading is bad for you. This book has many scientific studies that show the more you read, the worse it is because it makes you very rigid.Scott Alexander, who is the archrationalist, really liked that, and he added me to his blog roll. Because of that, I got a thousand rationalist subscribers. I have found that rationalists at least somewhat interested in the classics. I think they are definitely interested in enduring sources of value. I've observed a fair amount of interest.Oliver: How much of a lay reader are you really? Because you read scholarship and critics and you can just quote John Gilroy in the middle of a piece or something.Kanakia: Yeah. That is a good question. I have definitely gotten more interested in secondary literature. In my book, I really talk about being a lay reader and personally having a nonacademic approach to literature. I do think that, over 15 years of being a lay reader, I have developed a lot of knowledge.I've also learned the kind of secondary literature that is really important. I think having historical context adds a lot and is invaluable. Right now I'm rereading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. When I first read it in 2010, I hardly knew anything about French history. I was even talking online with someone about how most people who read Les Miserables think it's set in the French Revolution. That's basically because Americans don't really know anything about French history.Everything makes just a lot more sense the more you know about the time because it was written for people in it. For people in 1860s France, who knew everything about their own recent history, that really adds a lot to it. I still don't tend to go that much into interpretive literature, literature that tries to do readings of the stories or tell me the meaning of the stories. I feel like I haven't really gotten that much out of that.Oliver: How long have you been learning Anglo-Saxon?Kanakia: I went through a big Anglo-Saxon phase. That was in 2010. It started because I started reading The Canterbury Tales in Middle English. There is a great app online called General Prologue created by one of your countrymen, Terry Richardson [NB it is Terry Jones], who loved Middle English. In this app, he recites the Middle English of the General Prologue. I started listening to this app, and I thought, I just really love the rhythms and the sounds of Middle English. And it's quite easy to learn. So then, I got really into that.And then I thought, but what about Anglo-Saxon? I'm very bad at languages. I studied Latin for seven years in middle school and high school. I never really got very far, but I thought, Anglo-Saxon has to be the easiest foreign language you can learn, right? So, I got into it.I cannot sight read Anglo-Saxon, but I really got into Anglo-Saxon poetry. I really liked the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Most people probably would not like the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle because it's very repetitive, but that makes it great if you're a language learner because every entry is in this very repetitive structure. I just felt such a connection. I get in trouble when I say this kind of stuff, because I'm never quiet sure if it's 100 percent true. But it's certainly one of the oldest vernacular literatures in Europe. It's just so much older than most of the other medieval literature I've read. And it just was such a window into a different part of history I never knew about.Oliver: And you particularly like “The Dream of the Rood”?Kanakia: Yeah, “The Dream of the Rood” is my favorite Anglo-Saxon poem. “The Dream of the Rood” is a poem that is told from the point of view of Christ's cross. A man is having a dream. In this dream he encounters Christ's cross, and Christ's cross starts reciting to him basically the story of the crucifixion. At the end, the cross is buried. I don't know, it was just so haunting and powerful. Yeah, it was one of my favorites.Oliver: Why do you think Byron is a better poet than Alexander Pope?Kanakia: This is an argument I cannot get into. I think this is coming up because T. S. Eliot felt that Alexander Pope was a great poet because he really exemplified the spirit of the age. I don't know. I've tried to read Pope. It just doesn't do it for me. Whereas with Byron, I read Don Juan and found it entertaining. I enjoyed it. Then, his lyric poetry is just more entertaining to read. With Alexander Pope, I'm learning a lot about what kind of poetry people wrote in the 18th century, but the joy is not there.Oliver: Okay. Can we do a quick fire round where I say the name of a book and you just say what you think of it, whatever you think of it?Kanakia: Sure.Oliver: Okay. The Odyssey.Kanakia: The Odyssey. Oh, I love The Odyssey. It has a very strange structure, where it starts with Telemachus and then there's this flashback in the middle of it. It is much more readable than The Iliad; I'll say that.Oliver: Herodotus.Kanakia: Herodotus is wild. Going into Herodotus, I really thought it was about the Persian war, which it is, but it's mostly a general overview of everything that Herodotus knew, about anything. It's been a long time since I read it. I really appreciate the voice of Herodotus, how human it is, and the accumulation of facts. It was great.Oliver: I love the first half actually. The bit about the Persian war I'm less interested in, but the first half I think is fantastic. I particularly love the Egypt book.Kanakia: Oh yeah, the Egypt book is really good.Oliver: All those like giant beetles that are made of fire or whatever; I can't remember the details, but it's completely…Kanakia: The Greeks are also so fascinated by Egypt. They go down there like what is going on out there? Then, most of what we know about Egypt comes from this Hellenistic period, when the Greeks went to Egypt. Our Egyptian kings list comes from the Hellenistic period where some scholar decided to sort out what everybody was up to and put it all into order. That's why we have such an orderly story about Egypt. That's the story that the Greeks tried to tell themselves.Oliver: Marcus Aurelius.Kanakia: Marcus Aurelius. When I first read The Meditations, which I loved, obviously, I thought, “being the Roman emperor cannot be this hard.” It really was a black pill moment because I thought, “if the emperor of Rome is so unhappy, maybe human power really doesn't do it.”Knowing more about Marcus Aurelius, he did have quite a difficult life. He was at war for most of his—just stuck in the region in Germany for ages. He had various troubles, but yeah, it really was very stoic. It was, oh, I just have to do my duty. Very “heavy is the head that wears the crown” kind of stuff. I thought, “okay, I guess being Roman emperor is not so great.”Oliver: Omar Khayyam.Kanakia: Omar Khayyam. Okay, I've only read The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald, which I loved, but I cannot formulate a strong opinion right now.Oliver: As You Like It.Kanakia: No opinions.Oliver: Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.Kanakia: Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. I do have an opinion about this, which is that they should make a redacted version of Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. I normally am not a big believer in abridgements because I feel like whatever is there is there. But, Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, first of all, has a long portion before Boswell even meets Johnson. That portion drags; it's not that great. Then it has all these like letters that Johnson wrote, which also are not that great. What's really good is when Boswell just reports everything Johnson ever said, which is about half the book. You get a sense of Johnson's conversation and his personality, and that is very gripping. I've definitely thought that with a different presentation, this could still be popular. People would still read this.Oliver: The Communist Manifesto.Kanakia: The Communist Manifesto. It's very stirring. I love The Communist Manifesto. It has very haunting, powerful lines. I won't try to quote from it because I'll misquote them.Oliver: But it is remarkably well written.Kanakia: Oh yeah, it is a great work of literature.Oliver: Yeah.Kanakia: I read Capital [Das Kapital], which is not a great work of literature, and I would venture to say that it is not necessarily worth reading. It really feels like Marx's reputation is built on other political writings like The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and works like that, which really seem to have a lot more meat on the bone than Capital.Oliver: Pragmatism by William James.Kanakia: Pragmatism. I mean, I've mentioned that in my book. I love William James in general. I think William James was writing in this 19th-century environment where it seemed like some form of skepticism was the only rational solution. You couldn't have any source of value, and he really tried to cut through that with Pragmatism and was like, let's just believe the things that are good to believe. It is definitely at least useful to think, although someone else can always argue with you about what is useful to believe. But, as a personal guide for belief, I think it is still useful.Oliver: Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw.Kanakia: No strong opinions. It was a long time ago that I read Major Barbara.Oliver: Tell me what you like about James Fenimore Cooper.Kanakia: James Fenimore Cooper. Oh, this is great. I have basically a list of Great Books that I want to read, but four or five years ago, I thought, “what's in all the other books that I know the names of but that are not reputed, are not the kind of books you still read?”That was when I read Walter Scott, who I really love. And I just started reading all kinds of books that were kind of well known but have kind of fallen into literary disfavor. In almost every case, I felt like I got a lot out of these books. So, nowadays when I approach any realm of literature, I always look for those books.In 19th-century American literature, the biggest no-longer-read book is The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, which was America's first bestseller. He was the first American novelist that had a high reputation in Europe. The Last of the Mohicans is kind of a historical romance, à la Walter Scott, but much more tightly written and much more tightly plotted.Cooper has written five novels, the Leatherstocking Tales, that are all centered around this very virtuous, rough-hewn frontiersman, Natty Bumppo. He has his best friend, Chingachgook, who is the last of the Mohicans. He's the last of his tribe. And the two of these guys are basically very sad and stoic. Chingachgook is distanced from his tribe. Chingachgook has a tribe of Native Americans that he hates—I want to say it's the Huron. He's always like, “they're the bad ones,” and he's always fighting them. Then, Natty Bumppo doesn't really love settled civilization. He's not precisely at war with it, but he does not like the settlers. They're kind of stuck in the middle. They have various adventures, and I just thought it was so haunting and powerful.I've been reading a lot of other 19th-century American literature, and virtually none of it treats Native Americans with this kind of respect. There's a lot of diversity in the Native American characters; there's really an attempt to show how their society works and the various ways that leadership and chiefship works among them. There's this very haunting moment in The Last of the Mohicans, where this aged chief, Tamenund, comes out and starts speaking. This is a chief who, in American mythology, was famous for being a friend to the white people. But, James Fenimore Cooper writing in the 1820s has Tamenund come out at 80 years old and say, “we have to fight; we have to fight the white people. That's our only option.” It was just such a powerful moment and such a powerful book.I was really, really enthused. I read all of these Leatherstocking Tales. It was also a very strange experience to read these books that are generally supposed to be very turgid and boring, and then I read them and was like, “I understand. I'm so transported.” I understand exactly why readers in the 1820s loved this.Oliver: Which Walter Scott books do you like?Kanakia: I love all the Walter Scott books I've read, but the one I liked best was Kenilworth. Have you ever read Kenilworth?Oliver: I don't know that one.Kanakia: Yeah, it's about Elizabeth I, who had a romantic relationship with one of her courtiers.Oliver: The Earl of Essex?Kanakia: Yeah. She really thought they were going to get married, but then it turned out he was secretly married. Basically, I guess the implication is that he killed his wife in order to marry Queen Elizabeth I. It's a novel all about him and that situation, and it just felt very tightly plotted. I really enjoyed it.Oliver: What did you think of Rejection?Kanakia: Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte? Initially when I read this book, I enjoyed it, but I was like, “life cannot possibly be this sad.” It's five or six stories about these people who just have nothing going on. Their lives are so miserable, they can't find anyone to sleep with, and they're just doomed to be alone forever. I was like, “life can't be this bad.” But now thinking back over it, it is one of the most memorable books I've read in the last year. It really sticks with you. I feel like my opinion of this book has gone up a lot in retrospect.Oliver: How antisemitic is the House of Mirth?Kanakia: That is a hotly debated question, which I mentioned in my book. I think there has been a good case made that Edith Wharton, the author of House of Mirth, who was from an old New York family, was herself fairly antisemitic and did not personally like Jewish people. What she portrays in this book is that this old New York society also was highly suspicious of Jewish people and was organized to keep Jewish people out.In this book there is a rich Jewish man, Simon Rosedale, and there's a poor woman, Lily Bart. Lily Bart's main thing is whether she's going to marry the poor guy, Lawrence Selden, or the rich guy, Percy Gryce. She can't choose. She doesn't want to be poor, but she also is always bored by the rich guys. Meanwhile, through the whole book, there's Simon Rosedale, who's always like, “you should marry me.” He's the rich Jewish guy. He's like, “you should marry me. I will give you lots of money. You can do whatever you want.”Everybody else kind of just sees her as a woman and as a wife; he really sees her as an ally in his social climbing. That's his main motivation. The book is relatively clear that he has a kind of respect for her that nobody else does. Then, over the course of the book, she also gains a lot more respect for him. Basically, late in the book, she decides to marry him, but she has fallen a lot in the world. He's like, “that particular deal is not available anymore,” but he does offer her another deal that—although she finds it not to her taste—is still pretty good.He basically is like, “I'll give you some money, you'll figure out how to rehabilitate your reputation, and later down the line, we can figure something out.” So, I think with a great author like Edith Wharton, there's power in these portrayals. I felt it hard to come away from it feeling like the book is like a really antisemitic book.Oliver: Now, you note that the Great Books movement started out as something quite socially aspirational. Do you think it's still like that?Kanakia: I do think so. Yeah. For me, that's 100 percent what it was because I majored in econ. I always felt kind of inadequate as a writer against people who had majored in English. Then I started off as a science fiction writer, young adult writer, and I was like, “I'm going to read all these Great Books and then I'll have read the books that everybody else has read.” In my mind, that's also what it was—that there was some upper crust or literary society that was reading all these Great Books.That's really what did it. I do think there's still an element of aspiration to it because it's a club that you can join, that anyone can join. It's very straightforward to be a Great Books reader, and so I think there's still something there. I think because the Great Books movement has such a democratic quality to it, it actually doesn't get you to the top socially, which has always been the true, always been the case. But, that's okay. As long as you end up higher than where you started, that's fine.Oliver: What makes a book great?Kanakia: I talk about it this in the book, and I go through many different authors' conceptions of what makes a book great or what constitutes a classic. I don't know that anyone has come up with a really satisfying answer. The Horatian formulation from Horace—that a book is great or an author is great if it has lasted for a hundred years—is the one that seems to be the most accurate. Like, any book that's still being read a hundred years after it was written has a greatness.I do think that T. S. Eliott's formulation—that a civilization at its height produces certain literature and that literature partakes of the greatness of the civilization and summarizes the greatness of the civilization—does seem to have some kind of truth to it.But it's hard, right? Because the greatest French novel is In Search of Lost Time, but I don't know that anyone would say that the France in the 1920s was at its height. It's not a prescriptive thing, but it does seem like the way we read many of these Great Books, like Moby Dick, it feels like you're like communing with the entire society that produced it. So, maybe there's something there.Oliver: Now, you've used a list from Clifton Fadiman.Kanakia: Yes.Oliver: Rather than from Mortimer Adler or Harold Bloom or several others. Why this list?Kanakia: Well, the best reason is that it's actually the list I've just been using for the last 15 years. I went to a science fiction convention in 2009, Readercon, and at this science fiction convention was Michael Dirda, who was a Washington Post book critic. He had recently come out with his book, Classics for Pleasure, which I also bought and liked. But he said that the list he had always used was this Clifton Fadiman book. And so when I decided to start reading the Great Books, I went and got that book. I have perused many other lists over time, but that was always the list that seemed best to me.It seemed to have like the best mix. There's considerable variation amongst these lists, but there's also a lot of overlap. So any of these lists is going to have Dickens on it, and Tolstoy, and stuff like that. So really, you're just thinking about, “aside from Dickens and Tolstoy and George Eliot and Walt Whitman and all these people, who are the other 50 authors that you're going be reading?”The Mortimer Adler list is very heavy on philosophy. It has Plotinus on it. It has all these scientific works. I don't know, it didn't speak to me as much. Whereas, this Clifton Fadiman and John Major list has all these Eastern works on it. It has The Tale of Genji, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Story of the Stone, and that just spoke to me a little bit more.Oliver: What modern books will be on a future Great Books list, whether it's from someone alive or someone since the war.Kanakia: Have you ever heard of Robert Caro?Oliver: Sure.Kanakia: Yeah. I think his Lyndon Johnson books are great books. They have changed the field of biography. They're so complete, they seem to summarize an entire era, epoch. They're highly rated, but I feel like they're underrated as literature.What else? I was actually a little bit surprised in this Clifton Fadiman-John Major book, which came out in 1999, that there are not more African Americans in their list. Like, Invisible Man definitely seemed like a huge missed work. You know, it's hard. You would definitely want a book that has undergone enough critical evaluation that people are pretty certain that it is great. A lot of things that are more recent have not undergone that evaluation yet, but Invisible Man has, as have some works by Martin Luther King.Oliver: What about The Autobiography of Malcolm X?Kanakia: I would have to reread. I feel like it hasn't been evaluated much as a literary document.Oliver: Helen DeWitt?Kanakia: It's hard to say. It's so idiosyncratic, The Last Samurai, but it is certainly one of the best novels of the last 25 years.Oliver: Yeah.Kanakia: It is hard to say, because there's nothing else quite like it. But I would love if The Last Samurai was on a list like this; that would be amazing.Oliver: If someone wants to try the Great Books, but they think that those sort of classic 19th-century novels are too difficult—because they're long and the sentences are weird or whatever—what else should they do? Where else should they start?Kanakia: Well, it depends on what they're into, or it depends on their personality type. I think like there are people who like very, very difficult literature. There are people who are very into James Joyce and Proust. I think for some people the cost-benefit is better. If they're going to be pouring over some book for a long time, they would prefer if it was overtly difficult.If they're not like that, then I would say, there are many Great Books that are more accessible. Hemingway is a good one and Grapes of Wrath is wonderful. The 19th-century American books tend to be written in a very different register than the English books. If you read Moby Dick, it feels like it's written in a completely different language than Charles Dickens, even though they're writing essentially at the same time.Oliver: Is there too much Freud on the list that you've used?Kanakia: Maybe. I know that Interpretation of Dreams is on that list, which I've tried to read and have decided life is too short. I didn't really buy it, but I have read a fair amount of Freud. My impression of Freud was always that I would read Freud and somehow it would just seem completely fanciful or far out, like wouldn't ring true. But then when I started reading Freud, it was more the opposite. I was like, oh yeah, this seems very, very true.Like this battle between like the id and the ego and the super ego, and this feeling that like the psyche is at war with itself. Human beings really desire to be singular and exceptional, but then you're constantly under assault by the reality principle, which is that you're insignificant. That all seemed completely true. But then he tries to cure this somehow, which does not seem a curable problem. And he also situates the problem in some early sexual development, which also did not necessarily ring true. But no, I wouldn't say there's too much. Freud is a lot of fun. People should read Freud.Oliver: Which of the Great Books have you really not liked?Kanakia: I do get asked this quite a bit. I would say the Great Book that I really felt like—at least in translation—was not that rewarding in an unabridged version was Don Quixote. Because at least half the length of Don Quixote is these like interpolated novellas that are really long and tedious. I felt Don Quixote was a big slog. But maybe someday I'll go back and reread it and love it. Who knows?Oliver: Now you wrote that the question of biography is totally divorced from the question of what art is and how it operates. What do you think of George Orwell's supposition that if Shakespeare came back tomorrow, and we found out he used to rape children that we should—we would not say, you know, it's fine to carry on to doing that because he might write another King Lear.Kanakia: Well, if we discovered that Shakespeare was raping children, he should go to prison for that. No. It's totally divorced in both senses. You don't get any credit in the court of law because you are the writer of King Lear. If I murdered someone and then I was hauled in front of a judge and they were like, oh, Naomi's a genius, I wouldn't get off for murder. Nor should I get off for murder.So in terms of like whether we would punish Shakespeare for his crime of raping children, I don't think King Lear should count at all, but it's never used that way. It's never should someone go to prison or not for their crimes, because they're a genius. It's always used the other way, which is should we read King Lear knowing that the author raped children, but I also feel like that is immaterial. If you read King Lear, you're not enabling someone to rape children.Oliver: There's an almost endless amount of discussion these days about the Great Books and education and the value of the humanities, and what's the future of it all. What is your short opinion on that?Kanakia: My short opinion is that the Great Books at least are going to be fine. The Great Books will continue to be read, and they would even survive the university. All these books predate the university and they will survive the university. I feel like the university has stewarded literature in its own way for a while now and has made certain choices in that stewardship. I think if that stewardship was given up to more voluntary associations that had less financial support, then I think the choices would probably be very different. But I still think the greatest works would survive.Oliver: Now this is a quote from the book: “I am glad that reactionaries love the Great Books. They've invited a Trojan horse into their own camp.” Tell us what you mean by that.Kanakia: Let's say you believed in Christian theocracy, that you thought America should be organized on explicitly Christian principles. And because you believe in Christian theocracy, you organize a school that teaches the Great Books. Many of these schools that are Christian schools that have Great Books programs will also teach Nietzsche. They definitely put some kind of spin on Nietzsche. But they will teach anti-Christ, and that is a counterpoint to Christian morality and Christian theology. There are many things that you'll read in the Great Books that are corrosive to various kinds of certainties.If someone who I think is bad starts educating themselves in the Great Books, I don't think that the Great Books are going to make them worse from my perspective. So it's good.Oliver: How did reading the Mahabharata change you?Kanakia: Oh yeah, so the Mahabharata is a Hindu epic from, let's say, the first century AD. I'm Indian and most Indians are familiar with the basic outline of the Mahabharata story because it's told in various retellings, and there's a TV serial that my parents would rent from the Indian store growing up and we would watch it tape by tape. So I'm very familiar with it. Like there's never been a time I have not known this story.But I was also familiar with the idea that there is a written version in Sanskrit that's extremely long. It is 10 times as long as the Iliad and the Odyssey combined. This Mahabharata story is not that long. I've read a version of it that's about 800 pages long. So how could something that's 10 times this long be the same? A new unabridged translation came out 10 years ago. So I started reading it, and it basically contains the entire Sanskrit Vedic worldview in it.I had never been exposed to this very coherently laid-out version of what I would call Hindu cosmology and ethics. Hindus don't really get taught those things in a very organized way. The book is basically about dharma, the principle of rightness and how this principle of rightness orders the universe and how it basically results in everybody getting their just deserts in various ways. As I was reading the book, I was like, this seems very true that there is some cosmic rebalancing here, and that everything does turn out more or less the way it should, which is not something that I can defend on a rational level.But just reading the book, it just made me feel like, yes, that is true. There is justice, the universe is organized by justice. It took me about a year to read the whole thing. I started waking up at 5:00 a.m. and reading for an hour each morning, and it just was a really magical, profound experience that brought me a lot closer to my grandmother's religious beliefs.Oliver: Is it ever possible to persuade someone with arguments that they should read literature, or is it just something that they have to have an inclination toward and then follow someone's example? Because I feel like we have so many columns and op-eds and “books are good because of X reason, and it's very important because of Y reason.” And like, who cares? No one cares. If you are persuaded, you take all that very seriously and you argue about what exactly are the precise reasons we should say. And if you're not persuaded, you don't even know this is happening.And what really persuades you is like, oh, Naomi sounds pretty compelling about the Mahabharata. That sounds cool. I'll try that. It's much more of a temperamental, feelingsy kind of thing. Is it possible to argue people into thinking about this differently? Or should we just be doing what we do and setting an example and hoping that people will follow.Kanakia: As to whether it's possible or not, I do not know. But I do think these columns are too ambitious. A thousand-word column and the imagined audience for this column is somebody who doesn't read books at all, who doesn't care about literature at all. And then in a thousand-word column, you're going to persuade them to care about literature. This is no good. It's so unnecessary.Whereas there's a much broader range of people who love to read books, but have never picked up Moby Dick or have never picked up Middlemarch, or who like maybe loved Middlemarch, but never thought maybe I should then go on and read Jane Austen and George Eliot.I think trying to shift people from “I don't read books at all; reading books is not something I do,” to being a Great Books card-carrying lover of literature is a lot. I really aim for a much lower result than that, which is to whatever extent people are interested in literature, they should pursue that interest. And as the rationalists would say, there's a lot of alpha in that; there's a lot to be gained from converting people who are somewhat interested into people who are very interested.Oliver: If there was a more widespread practice of humanism in education and the general culture, would that make America into a more liberal country in any way?Kanakia: What do you mean by humanism?Oliver: You know, the old-fashioned liberal arts approach, the revival of the literary journal culture, the sort of depolitical approach to literature, the way things used to be, as it were.Kanakia: It couldn't hurt. It couldn't hurt is my answer to that question.Oliver: Okay.Kanakia: What you're describing is basically the way I was educated. I went to Catholic school in DC at St. Anselm's Abbey School, in Northeast, DC, grade school. Highly recommend sending your little boys there. No complaints about the school. They talked about humanism all the time and all these civic virtues. I thought it was great. I don't know what people in other schools learn, but I really feel like it was a superior way of teaching.Now, you know, it was Catholic school, so a lot of people who graduated from my school are conservatives and don't really have the beliefs that I have, but that's okay.Oliver: Tell us about your reading habits.Kanakia: I read mostly ebooks. I really love ebooks because you can make the type bigger. I just read all the time. They vary. I don't wake up at 5:00 a.m. to read anymore. Sometimes if I feel like I'm not reading enough—because I write this blog, and the blog doesn't get written unless I'm reading. That's the engine, and so sometimes I set aside a day each week to read. But generally, the reading mostly takes care of itself.What I tend to get is very into a particular thing, and then I'll start reading more and more in that area. Recently, I was reading a lot of New Yorker stories. So I started reading more and more of these storywriters that have been published in the New Yorker and old anthologies of New Yorker stories. And then eventually I am done. I'm tired. It's time to move on.Oliver: But do you read several books at once? Do you make notes? Do you abandon books? How many hours a day do you read?Kanakia: Hours a day: Because my e-reader keeps these stats, I'd say 15 or 20 hours a week of reading. Nowadays because I write for the blog, I often think as I'm reading how I would frame a post about this. So I look for quotes, like what quote I would look at. I take different kinds of notes. I'll make more notes if I'm more confused by what is going on. Especially with nonfiction books, I'll try sometimes to make notes just to iron out what exactly I think is happening or what I think the argument is. But no, not much of a note taker.Oliver: What will you read next?Kanakia: What will I read next? Well, I've been thinking about getting back into Indian literature. Right now I'm reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. But there's an Indian novel called Jhootha Sach, which is a partition novel that is originally in Hindi. And it's also a thousand pages long, and is frequently compared to Les Miserables and War and Peace. So I'm thinking about tackling that finally.Oliver: Naomi Kanakia, thank you very much.Kanakia: Thanks for having me. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.commonreader.co.uk

One of the many objects that went down with the ship during the sinking of the Titanic was a beautiful, jewel-encrusted edition of a poetry book called the “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.” The Rubaiyat was probably the most famous work of poetry in the English-speaking world at that time…which was somewhat unusual, as the book was written by a Persian mathematician 800 years before.For more information about Omar Khayyam and the Rubaiyat, check out the books “Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry” by Taher-Kermani Reza, “The Wine of Wisdom: The Life, Poetry and Philosophy of Omar Khayyam” by Mehdi Aminrazavi, and the BBC documentary “The Genius of Omar Khayyam.” 

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En 1948, un homme est retrouvé sans vie sur une plage australienne. Son identité ? Inconnue. La raison de sa mort ? Un mystère. Seuls indices : un pyjama, des caleçons, du matériel de rasage et un fil ciré orange cousu sur sa veste. Dans la doublure de cette dernière, un message énigmatique : "Taman Shud", "Ce qui est terminé" en persan. L'autopsie révèle un empoisonnement. Les enquêteurs découvrent un exemplaire rare des Rubaiyat, un recueil de poèmes persans, avec un code griffonné dans ses marges. Un lien entre ce livre, les mots "Taman Shud" et la mort de l'homme Inconnu ? Plongez dans les méandres de cette affaire fascinante, où chaque indice ouvre la porte à de nouvelles questions. Qui était cet homme ? Que signifiait le message "Taman Shud" ? Un suicide ? Un meurtre ? Un espionnage ? Laissez-vous happer par ce récit captivant et tentez de percer les secrets de l'affaire Taman Shud. Merci pour votre écoute Vous aimez l'Heure H, mais connaissez-vous La Mini Heure H https://audmns.com/YagLLiK , une version pour toute la famille.Retrouvez l'ensemble des épisodes de l'Heure H sur notre plateforme Auvio.be :https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/22750 Intéressés par l'histoire ? Vous pourriez également aimer nos autres podcasts : Un jour dans l'Histoire : https://audmns.com/gXJWXoQL'Histoire Continue: https://audmns.com/kSbpELwAinsi que nos séries historiques :Chili, le Pays de mes Histoires : https://audmns.com/XHbnevhD-Day : https://audmns.com/JWRdPYIJoséphine Baker : https://audmns.com/wCfhoEwLa folle histoire de l'aviation : https://audmns.com/xAWjyWCLes Jeux Olympiques, l'étonnant miroir de notre Histoire : https://audmns.com/ZEIihzZMarguerite, la Voix d'une Résistante : https://audmns.com/zFDehnENapoléon, le crépuscule de l'Aigle : https://audmns.com/DcdnIUnUn Jour dans le Sport : https://audmns.com/xXlkHMHSous le sable des Pyramides : https://audmns.com/rXfVppvVous aimez les histoires racontées par Jean-Louis Lahaye ? Connaissez-vous ces podcast?Sous le sable des Pyramides : https://audmns.com/rXfVppv36 Quai des orfèvres : https://audmns.com/eUxNxyFHistoire Criminelle, les enquêtes de Scotland Yard : https://audmns.com/ZuEwXVOUn Crime, une Histoire https://audmns.com/NIhhXpYN'oubliez pas de vous y abonner pour ne rien manquer.Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement. Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

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Tonight, for our Snoozecast+ Deluxe bonus episode, we'll read from "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" translated poetically into English by Edward Fitzgerald. This first edition, inspired by Persian rhymed quatrains, together known as a “rubaiyat”, were rooted in the 11th to 12th century. They reflect the philosophical musings of the original author Khayyam who was not only a poet, but an accomplished mathematician and astronomer. As a seminal piece of Persian literature, the collection delves into themes related to the transience of life, love, and the pursuit of happiness amidst the inevitability of death. The content of the "Rubaiyat" encapsulates a dialogue between the speaker and the cosmos, often expressed through the metaphor of wine and revelry. The Rubáiyát also made its way into American pop culture, perhaps most charmingly in the classic 1957 musical The Music Man. In one scene, it's cited as one of the books the mayor's wife wants banned from the town library. The book's verses are condemned for their supposed licentiousness—proof, perhaps, of just how intoxicating these quatrains have always been. Though in truth, the work is more meditative than scandalous, filled with musings on time, nature, and the fleeting sweetness of life. — read by 'V' — Sign up for Snoozecast+ Deluxe to get expanded, ad-free access by going to snoozecast.com/plus! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I. Breathing Steps II. Lightwell III. To fight? No, to sing! "In the field recording I chose, a street musician plays and hums the tune of the Kozachok on the accordion, while people are heard passing by in Jerusalem's Armenian Quarter. I was immediately captivated by the sound of the accordion, but also by the unforced openness with which the musician hummed the tune. Reading about the recording, I learnt about the history of the Quarter, its antiquity and the monks who first migrated there. This brought me back to a theme that has been a constant in my life and artistic practice: travel and migration as an act of faith. "Leaving one's country is an enormous leap of faith; it is both proof and a test of the strength of that faith, its trust in a kind of Divine Grace. You must believe that you will be looked after both along the way and when you arrive at your destination; you must believe that the residents of other lands, the ones you pass through and the one in which you might settle will be friendly and welcoming, and not hostile, distant or indifferent. You travel and migrate trusting that in Others, you will meet the face of what in Sufism is called the Beloved; and, approaching travel in this way, you are the vulnerable Foreigner, the Stranger, the Wanderer.  "This is true if you are a merchant, a monk or ‘holy person', a family or a roving musician; but it is especially true if you are a woman. In researching for the piece, I stumbled across a poem by contemporary Armenian poet Hasnik Simonian, who speaks of an autumn ‘stretched and squeezed like an accordion' while she wanders, ‘praying with my hands in my pockets', as ‘poet-girls' do, ‘step by step'. I thought about the privilege of walking and travelling alone, and just how much of an act of faithful defiance to restrictive social norms it can be for some of us. A part of the poem is included in the piece, read by Eleni Sisti.    "For years, I have returned again and again to the figure of a Persian-speaking Armenian-Jewish merchant, poet and mystic called Sarmad Kashani, who travelled to Mughal India in the 17th century. In his Rubaiyat (parts of which are heard read by Navid Fayaz) he expresses with undaunted sincerity the nature and struggle of a form of faith that wishes to remain open, trusting, non-sectarian, undogmatic, and accepting of its own uncertainty and fallibility. In the poem which gives the title to this piece [here in English translation by Syeda Saiyidain Hameed], he writes:  If the heart has Wisdom, its embrace will hold the Friend If the eye can see, the Radiance is Everywhere If the ear can listen, what else but praise of God?  If the tongue can speak, every word reveals the Mystery "Despite the evident depth of his faith, Sarmad was executed by Emperor Aurangzeb, allegedly for atheism and unorthodox religious practices. One of the reasons why he has captured my imagination for years is exactly his fate as an apostate, a daring objector to the dogma of power and religious hypocrisy. In choosing a recording of the Kozachok from Jerusalem at this time of senseless bloodshed in Israel and Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan and other parts of the world, I felt that both Sarmad's objection to tribalism and his understanding of the Other as the face of God are a fitting counterpoint to the kind of religious and ethnic hatred that pits people against each other and which is used by ruthless, cynical leaders to kill, control and indoctrinate.  "Travel and migration, at their core, hold the belief that the earth is to be shared and experienced by all of us – and not just all of us humans but also other forms of life. The Armenian folk song ‘Mer tan itev', from the historically Armenian region of Shadakh in modern day Turkey, is a hymn to the sharing of the fruits of the land and to marriage. It is heard here sung by the acapella quartet Asma Cordis. In another Armenian folk poem, read by me, the speaker mourns the loss of their beloved, who has left to join a war. Perhaps it was a war that was seen as justified, against a neighbour turned enemy, against a heathen, an infidel, an adversary; but if we are all each other's Strangers, why must we continue to fight, when we can sing in praise instead?  "The composition is structured around fleeting field recordings (sometimes manipulated) from my own walking travels, mostly of street musicians, or musicians practicing and heard from the street, but also of various ambient sounds, including recordings from London, Athens, Cagliari and Reykjavik. Poets, musicians and birds migrate from far and distant places; they too wander and bring the sounds of other lands and languages with them, mixing and blending along the way. Overall, my aim has been to pay homage to this: the travelling Radiance everywhere; the road that welcomes everyone and everything unconditionally." Contributors  Chris Sakellaridis: Composition, Field Recordings, Voice (English)  Eleni Sisti: Voice, (Armenian)  Navid Fayaz: Voice, (Farsi)  Acapella group Asma Cordis (Georgia Palioura, Anna Maria Markantoni, Irini Athanasoula, Marianna Athanasoula): Folk Song ‘Mer Dan Itev'  Various Street Musicians  Birds, Sea, Bells, Wind   Jerusalem street soundscape reimagined by Chris Sakellaridis. Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world's first collection of the sounds of human migration.  For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration

Polo Ramírez comentó la actualidad, además, en una nueva edición de ¿Y qué tal si salimos?, Kike Yavar comentó Rubaiyat. Además, comentó con el chef y director de Patrimonio y Cultura de Les Toques Blanches, Carlos Carmona, sobre el trabajo de la asociación dando becas a una serie de jóvenes estudiantes y la importancia de la comida chilena.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1156, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: That Old Time Television 1: This 1950s Nelson family sitcom ran for 14 years. Ozzie and Harriet. 2: 2 of the 3 full-time "Tonight Show" hosts before Jay Leno. (2 of 3) Steve Allen, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson. 3: This actress' TV character Alexis Carrington was once described as "starts with B, rhymes with rich". Joan Collins. 4: With boxing as her category, Dr. Joyce Brothers won the top prize on this TV quiz show. The $64,000 Question. 5: Jeepers, Dr. Smith! On TV's "Lost in Space", this actor played the youngest Robinson. Billy Mumy. Round 2. Category: Soccer 1: At the beginning of a game, the choice of goal and kickoff is decided by this. a toss of a coin. 2: =. =. 3: Like a castle, a soccer field in Rio is surrounded by this to keep out overzealous fans. a moat. 4: First held in Uruguay in 1930, it's the largest single-sport tournament in the world. the World Cup. 5: International competition for this trophy began in 1930. World Cup. Round 3. Category: African-American Biography 1: "The Road to Freedom" is the subtitle of Catherine Clinton's bio of this 19th century woman. Harriet Tubman. 2: Jonathan Eig's bio of this champ who passed away in 2016 is one of the "Greatest" sports biographies. Ali. 3: "The New Negro" is "The Life of Alain Locke", the first African American to earn this honor that sent him to Oxford. a Rhodes Scholarship. 4: "Talking at the Gates" is "A Life of" this "If Beale Street Could Talk" novelist. James Baldwin. 5: Published in 2007, "Supreme Discomfort" is a portrait of this jurist. Clarence Thomas. Round 4. Category: Country Groups 1: The "Lady" in this group that won 5 2010 ACM Awards is Hillary Scott, daughter of country singer Linda Davis. Lady Antebellum. 2: Randy Owen fronted this "stately" group whose hits include "Christmas in Dixie" and "Born Country". Alabama. 3: This organization was formed in April 1949 to counter the Soviet Union. NATO. 4: This country group stays in motion with hits like "I'm Movin' On" and "Life Is A Highway". Rascal Flatts. 5: In 1981 they burned up the pop and country charts singing, "My heart's on fire, Elvira". The Oak Ridge Boys. Round 5. Category: Where It'S At. With At in quotation marks 1: Goldthwait's moniker. Bobcat. 2: It's his political party. Democrat. 3: Omar Khayyam's handiwork. "The Rubaiyat". 4: This neck scarf is named for its resemblance to one worn by Croatian soldiers. Cravat. 5: The Captain and Tennille sang of this kind of beastly love. "Muskrat Love". Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

Oggi Marica torna a parlarci dei suoi due argomenti preferiti, le highway americane e incauti studenti universitari che fanno sempre una brutta fine! Tra autostoppisti dai denti gialli, macchine che si fermano in mezzo alla strada e coppie di anziani decisamente troppo ospitali, quello di di Philip Innes Fraser sarà un viaggio che non dimenticherete!Nel blocco centrale la storia paranormale dell'ascoltatrice Francesca, che ci racconta di un sogno premonitore a metà... che anticipa solo un dettaglio ma non il tragico evento! Ne hai una da raccontarci? Mandaci un messaggio vocale o scrivici!Di là del velo Stefano decide di fare la persona di cultura, parlandoci di libri misteriosi come "Il Manoscritto di Voynich" o "Il Libro di Soyga". Ma alla fine più che il libro, la vera storia inquietante è quella dei loro proprietari! E come dimenticarsi anche del nostro caro Nostradamus? Ma non ci interessano le sue predizioni farlocche, noi vogliamo leggere il suo prezioso libro di cucina afrodisiaca! E in chiusura, ecco a voi il libro sfigato per eccellenza, l'edizione "Sangorski" del "Rubaiyat"!Fonti su Italiapodcast.itSeguici su Instagram: @mentremorivo_podcast e raccontaci LA TUA storia paranormale!Lasciaci una recensione sulla tua app di ascolto preferita e offrici un caffé simbolico su Ko-Fihttps://ko-fi.com/italiapodcast

Episode 309: In Mike's first book, Murder, Madness and Mayhem, he wrote about an unknown man whose body was found on Somerton Park beach near Adelaide, Australia, by two trainee jockeys who'd been out with their horses on the morning of December 1, 1948. Lying in peaceful repose, the man wore a suit, overdressed for the warm Australian summer, and had no wallet or identification. He was unknown to anyone locally. The labels of his clothing had been ripped out.  Some enigmatic leads proved fruitless, including the discovery of a book, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, believed to have belonged to the stranger. In that book, what appeared to be coded writing was found. Experts have yet to decrypt the supposed message. Some believe the man was a spy, possibly murdered for what he knew. Called by many Somerton Man, the stranger's identity has remained unknown for decades until recently, when two separate groups came forward claiming they had information about who he was, leading to further speculation and even more questions. Sources: Murder Madness and Mayhem by Mike Browne The Unknown Man by Gerald Feltus Archived Newspaper Articles | Trove Final Report/Thesis 2015 - Derek Abbott Code Cracking: Who Murdered the Somerton Man | Prof. Derek Abbott How to Solve Ciphers Cryptography Hints 2602UMSAU — The Doe Network ‘Truth to come out': Fresh claims emerge on Somerton Man Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

En 1948, un homme est retrouvé sans vie sur une plage australienne. Son identité ? Inconnue. La raison de sa mort ? Un mystère. Seuls indices : un pyjama, des caleçons, du matériel de rasage et un fil ciré orange cousu sur sa veste. Dans la doublure de cette dernière, un message énigmatique : "Taman Shud", "Ce qui est terminé" en persan. L'autopsie révèle un empoisonnement. Les enquêteurs découvrent un exemplaire rare des Rubaiyat, un recueil de poèmes persans, avec un code griffonné dans ses marges. Un lien entre ce livre, les mots "Taman Shud" et la mort de l'homme Inconnu ? Plongez dans les méandres de cette affaire fascinante, où chaque indice ouvre la porte à de nouvelles questions. Qui était cet homme ? Que signifiait le message "Taman Shud" ? Un suicide ? Un meurtre ? Un espionnage ? Laissez-vous happer par ce récit captivant et tentez de percer les secrets de l'affaire Taman Shud. Merci pour votre écoute Retrouvez l'ensemble des épisodes de l'Heure H sur notre plateforme Auvio.be : https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/22750 Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

Guest: Juan Cole is a public intellectual, prominent blogger and essayist, and the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation from the Persian. Omar Khayyam (1048 – 1131) was a Persian astronomer and mathematician born in Nishapur in northeastern Iran who lived and worked at the courts of the Seljuk dynasty. Modern scholars agree that there is very little (if any) of the collected work of poetry know as the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam that can be certainly attributed to the historical figure. A tradition of attribution grew up in the centuries after Khayyam's death which culminated in Edward Fitzgerald's translation in the 19th Century. The post KPFA Special – The History Behind The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam appeared first on KPFA.

An ode to our local bookstores of the past & present. Read & see photos in the newsletter: fromboise.com Bookstores of the Treasure Valley: Rediscovered Books (180 N 8th St, Boise, ID 83702); Once and Future Books (1310 W State St, Boise, ID 83702); Friends of the Library bookstore (Downtown Boise Library!); Bent Corners - Boise (3343 N Five Mile Rd, Boise, ID 83713); Bent Corners - Nampa (1104 12th Ave S, Nampa, ID 83651); Half Price Books (3677 E Fairview Ave, Meridian, ID 83642); The Lit Room (215 E 34th St, Garden City, ID 83714); The Rubaiyat (314 S 6th Ave, Caldwell, ID 83605); Read more of Amanda's stories: Winter is coming A stronger town: patterns & promenades A stronger town part II: the countryside A stronger town part III: higher places A stronger town part IV: housing in-between Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/from-boise/cffada6d-11bc-4f06-89bd-5862f66e2606

Le Cosy Corner #135 - Katana catogan Où il est entre autres question de : [00:00:00] fêtes de fin d'année, échec de dry january et cacanecdotes [00:21:17] fêtes de fin d'année, oisiveté et écouteurs futuriiiiistes [00:44:02] Samouraïs vs Ninjas [01:24:36] Katamari Damacy, le jeu vidéo TOTAL [01:51:27] Against The Storm [02:03:14] Prince of Persia : The Lost Crown, les Rubaiyat d'Omar Khayyam et Samarcande d'Amin Maalouf La page Patreon du Cosy Corner : https://www.patreon.com/lecosycorner -- Playlist -- - Yuu Miyake - Katamari on the Rocks (Katamari Damacy OST) - IAM - Le Shit Squad - The Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise - Nujabes - Feather - Yuu Miyake - Katamari on the Rocks (arrangement) (We love Katamari OST) - The Rubaiyats - Tomorrow - ALB - Thanks que tu le perdras (Cosy Corner 135 special thanks)

Guest: Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, is the author of several books including his latest, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation From the Persian. The post The US Politics in the Middle East & The South Africa's Genocide Case Against Israel appeared first on KPFA.

Matt Cain is an author, broadcaster and former journalist. He was Channel 4's first Culture Editor, Editor in Chief of Attitude magazine and currently a presenter for Virgin Radio Pride UK. He grew up in Bolton in England's north and now lives in London. Today, we're discussing his upcoming novel, One Love. Our interview begins at 28.00We've got a Substack publication now! On the last day of the month, we share recommendations for two things we reckon you should read/watch/listen to. The beauty of Substack is you can revisit all our old editions and comment on our episode updates to share your thoughts. Come say hi! Caitlin recommends: You Could Be So Pretty by Holly Bourne*Holly Bourne's latest YA novel takes the pressures of social media and society and notches it up in an intense dystopian exploration of feminism. Thank you to Usborne Books for sending copies for review. Michelle recommends: Weyward by Emilia HartA gripping and emotional story of three generations of women told through alternating timelines. We don't often share interviews ahead of publication, but if you're in the UK and would like to pre-order a signed copy, you can do so through Gay's the Word or Gay Pride Shop. In this interview, we chat about:Why One Love is a slight departure from Matt's previous two novels Exploring class, straight-passing privilege and intersectionality through main characters Danny and GuyEncouraging and allowing people to change their mindsBody image in the queer communityCrowdfunding Matt's novel The Madonna of Bolton and overcoming prejudice in publishingLayton Williams, who recorded the audiobook for Albert Entwhistle, and Nikita on Strictly Come Dancing 2023 and breaking barriers for future generationsBooks and other things mentioned:Only Ever Yours by Louise O'NeillThe Burning by Laura BatesThe Curious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice HallettThe Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett (listen to our interview)The Flat Share by Beth O'LearyPromising Young Woman (film)Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamThe Somerton ManThe mystery of The Somerton Man finally solved after 70 yearsI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraThe Longest Shadow (TV series)Happy Head by Josh Silver (listen to our interview)One Day by David NichollsWild Things by Laura Kay (and check out our episodes here and here)Upper...

Dimitri and Khalid take an overly ambitious, ill-advised deep dive into the immense dracularity surrounding the Titanic disaster of 1912, including: The resurgence of Titanic conspiracy theories following the June 2023 Titan disaster, predictive programming in Hauptmann's “Atlantis” and “The Wreck of the Titan; or, Futility”, muckraker and Spiritualist William T. Stead's cursed mummy rumor, a lost bejeweled copy of the possibly cursed Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyam, the Wreck of the Edward Fitzgerald, the Somerset Man, the role of Marconi's wireless telegraph, the inexplicably sus behavior of SS Californian Captain Stanley Lord, Morgan's men covering up the Californian's duplicity, the shameful survival of White Star Line owner J. Bruce Ismay, what JP Morgan was or wasn't up to, and “The Rescue of the Third Class of the Titanic: A Revisionist History”. Part one of two. For access to full-length Patreon episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara' Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers

The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1

First some process shot accounts of 19th c. affiliations between a lot of the figures we're doing.  Dialectic poetry.  Rubaiyat stanzas.  Then Tennyson's great "Tithonus" with some attention to its similarities and differences from "Ulysses"

Halloween special + season finale! Guest host Gerard Coletta tells Josie and Taylor about one of Australia's most infamous and enduring mysteries: the Somerton man, a.k.a. the tamám shud case. Plus: an unconventional public health intervention starring the pocong, the Javanese shrouded ghost.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 626, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Fountains 1: Architect Nicola Salvi designed this, often called the last great baroque monument in Rome. Trevi Fountain. 2: A fountain in front of this kids' cable network's studios in Orlando spurts out green slime. Nickelodeon. 3: Andrea Del Verrocchio sculpted his bronze "Boy With" this sea creature for a Medici villa. Dolphin. 4: This statue in the Louvre once stood in a fountain on the Greek isle of Samothrace. Winged Victory. 5: King Matyas Corvinus and his beloved Ilonka adorn the Matyas Fountain at this Hungarian city's Royal Palace. Budapest. Round 2. Category: Day Time 1: The first day of the week mentioned by name in "Robinson Crusoe" isn't Friday but this (1st day is a clue). Sunday. 2: In English, it's alphabetically the last day of the week. Wednesday. 3: J. Wellington Wimpy often said, "I will gladly pay you" this day "for a hamburger today". Tuesday. 4: Day of the week that's the English equivalent to the Latin Saturni dies. Saturday. 5: G.K. Chesterton wrote of a "Man Who Was" this day. Thursday. Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 626, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 1902 1: When Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, his fortune went to establishing scholarships to this school. Oxford University. 2: In 1902 he published his newest Sherlock Holmes tale, "The Hound of the Baskervilles". Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 3: He and Matthew Henson made their first serious attempt to reach the North Pole, but it would take 7 more years. Robert Peary. 4: After 3 years of fighting, this South African war came to an end. the Boer War. 5: In August this "Junior", son of a physician, poet and essayist, was appointed to the Supreme Court. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Round 2. Category: French Menu 1: Canard aux mangues is duck served with this tropical fruit. mango. 2: I crave some sauce moutarde, named for this ingredient; I'll put in on everything. mustard. 3: We know these squashes by an Italian name, but to the French they're courgettes. zucchini. 4: In France this huge melon, called a pasteque, may be filled with wine before it's served. watermelon. 5: Bifteck. Steak. Round 3. Category: Where It's "At" 1: Goldthwait's moniker. Bobcat. 2: It's his political party. Democrat. 3: Omar Khayyam's handiwork. "The Rubaiyat". 4: This neck scarf is named for its resemblance to one worn by Croatian soldiers. Cravat. 5: The Captain and Tennille sang of this kind of beastly love. "Muskrat Love". Round 4. Category: "X" Rated 1: The narration that opened this TV show began, "A mighty princess forged in the heat of battle...". Xena: Warrior Princess. 2: Located in Cincinnati, it's one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. Xavier. 3: The horizontal number line in a Cartesian plane coordinate system. the x-axis. 4: William B. Davis played the mysterious Cigarette-Smoking Man on this Fox show. The X-Files. 5: From the Greek, it's literally someone who likes foreigners and foreign things. a xenophile. Round 5. Category: Throwing The Book At You 1: "Alexey... was the

On December 1, 1948, an unknown man was found lying dead on the sand on Somerton Beach next to the neighborhood of Glenelg, about 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Adelaide, South Australia. He had no money or identification on him, the labels in his clothing were cut off, and his minimal possessions yielded no clues. Further adding to the mystery, a rolled-up scrap of paper with the Persian phrase "tamám shud," translating to "is over" or "is finished," was found in the man's watch pocket around the time of his autopsy. The scrap was later discovered torn from a copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a circa 11th-century collection of poems by Khayyam, known as "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia." The book found tossed into a car after a public appeal by the police appeared to have previous writing indentations on a page adjacent to the torn-out one, revealing a local phone number and text speculated to be a coded message. With no further clues as to the Somerton Man's identity other than an abandoned suitcase left at the Adelaide railway station, a plaster cast was made of the man's bust following the coroner's inquest, and the body was embalmed nine days after its discovery and buried. For almost 74 years, the mystery of the Somerton has intrigued authorities, amateur sleuths, and the general public, including physicist, Electrical and Electronic Engineering professor Dr. Derek Abbott. For over a decade, Dr. Abbott and his team of grad students at the University of Adelaide worked on cracking the code found in the Rubaiyat and attempting to arrange a genetic DNA analysis. In partnership with internationally recognized forensic genealogist Dr. Colleen Fitzpatrick, Abbott and Fitzpatrick announced on July 26, 2022, that they have finally uncovered the identity of Australia's most famous "John Doe." Extracting DNA from chest hairs found in the Somerton Man's plaster cast has led them to a name and an occupation. But will this name lead to solving the remaining puzzle pieces? Pathologists at the time believed he was likely poisoned, but why, and by whom? Was there a Cold War connection, and why did he spend his last day in Adelaide? Circling back to the alternate name for this case, tamám shud, is this mystery really over, is it finished? Visit our webpage on this episode for a lot more information.

DECADES-OLD MYSTERY OF SOMERTON MAN SOLVED - A TRUE CRIME AND COKE QUICKIE The Tamám Shud case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is a partially solved case of an unidentified man found dead on 1 December 1948 on The Somerton Park beach, just south of Adelaide South Australia. The case is named after the Persian  phrase tamám shud, meaning "is over" or "is finished", which was printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man's trousers. The scrap had been torn from the final page of a copy of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, authored by 12th century poet Omar Khayyam Tamám was misspelt as Tamán in many early reports, and this error has often been repeated, leading to confusion about the name in the media. Following a public appeal by police, the book from which the page had been torn was located. On the inside back cover, detectives read through indentations left from previous handwriting – a local telephone number, another unidentified number, and text that resembled a coded message. The text has not been deciphered or interpreted in a way that satisfies authorities on the case. The case has been considered, since the early stages of the police investigation, "one of Australia's most profound mysteries". There has been intense speculation ever since regarding the identity of the victim, the cause of his death, and the events leading up to it. Public interest in the case remains significant for several reasons: the death occurred at a time of heightened international tensions following the beginning of the Cold War; the apparent involvement of a secret code; the possible use of an undetectable poison; and the inability of authorities to identify the dead man. In addition to intense public interest in Australia during the late 1940s and early 1950s, the case also attracted international attention. South Australia Police consulted their counterparts overseas and distributed information about the dead man internationally, in an effort to identify him. International circulation of a photograph of the man and details of his fingerprints yielded no positive identification. For example, in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was unable to match the dead man's fingerprint with prints taken from files of domestic criminals. Scotland Yard was also asked to assist with the case, but could not offer any insights. In recent years, additional evidence has emerged, including an old identification card possibly identifying the Somerton Man as one H. C. Reynolds and an ongoing DNA analysis of hair roots found on the plaster bust. On 19 May 2021, after a series of requests, the body was exhumed for analysis. Police stated that the remains were in "reasonable" condition and were optimistic about the prospect of DNA recovery. On 26 July 2022, Adelaide University professor Derek Abbott claimed that DNA evidence from hair samples removed from his death mask had proven the man to be Carl "Charles" Webb, born on November 16, 1905, in Footscray, in Melbourne, to Richard August Webb and Eliza Amelia Morris Grace; however, SA Police have not yet verified this claim. SOURCES USED: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/australia/australia-somerton-man-mystery-solved-claim-intl-hnk-dst/index.html https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-27/decades-old-mystery-of-somerton-man-solved,/13990830 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case

El último peldaño (08/07/2022) LOS OVNIS DE LOS PANTANOS El fenómeno de los objetos voladores no identificados presenta diversas caras y facetas. Una de las mas interesantes son los denominados “OSNIs” (Objetos Submarinos No Identificados), luces y extraños artefactos que entran y salen de mar, y que han sido detectados por navegantes de todo el mundo. Sin embargo no solo en los mares se ven estos objetos, también en lagos, e incluso en embalses. El periodista, director adjunto de la revista AÑO/CERO, escritor, investigador y miembro de los equipos de programas de radio míticos (La Rosa de los Vientos y El Colegio Invisible), Miguel Pedrero, nos habló de los casos de “OVNIs en los pantanos” y muy especialmente de los sucesos ocurridos en el embalse de “El Atazar” en Madrid. EL CÓDIGO DEL HOMBRE DE SOMERTON El 1 de diciembre de 1948, apreció en una playa de la ciudad de Adelaida, en Australia, el cuerpo sin vida de un hombre correctamente vestido. Casi 74 años después, la identidad de aquel hombre sigue siendo un misterio, como el hecho de que en su ropa no había ninguna etiqueta, ni tampoco portaba identificación alguna. Lo que si llevaba era algo enigmático, un pedazo de papel oculto en uno de los bolsillos del pantalón, arrancado de la última página de una rara edición neozelandesa del libro “The Rubaiyat” de Omar Khayyam, con las palabras Taman Shud. Hace unos meses hablamos de este caso con Enrique Lucas, que desde entonces inició una investigación sobre el misterio del hombre de Somerton, hoy nos visita para contarnos sus avances. CUENTO: CRUCE DE CAMINOS En el concurso de cuentos de misterio “El fantasma de la Princesa” que lanzamos el año pasado, recibimos mas de medio centenar de obras de gran calidad la mayoría de ellas. Esta noche vamos a escuchar la dramatización del cuento que quedó finalista, titulado “Cruce de caminos”, de Fran Rubio, narrado por el actor Juan Vicente P. Garrigós. http://elultimopeldano.blogspot.com/2021/11/concurso-de-cuentos-cortos-historias.html Y además Maria Chicano, nos trajo la información más insólita en las “noticias especiales” y también informamos sobre los siguientes temas: Presentación en Mazarrón, el próximo 9 de julio, del libro “50 Lugares Mágicos de la Región de Murcia”, de Joaquín Abenza, en el Hotel Playasol, en Bolnuevo-Puerto de Mazarrón, a las 22:00h. https://50lugaresmagicosregionmurcia.blogspot.com/2022/06/presentacion-en-mazarron-el-dia-9-de.html ; La XXXII Gran Noche de los OVNIs, que tendrá lugar en próximo 29 de julio, en la que volveremos a vivir la aventura de la radio, a la búsqueda de objetos voladores no identificados en los cielos del mundo. http://elultimopeldano.blogspot.com/2022/07/la-gran-noche-de-los-ovnis-2022-xxxii.html Con la colaboración de María José Garnández y María Chicano. Dirección y presentación: Joaquín Abenza. Blog del programa: http://www.elultimopeldano.blogspot.com.es/ WhatsApp: 644823513 Programa emitido en Onda Regional de Murcia.

Hace un siglo y 10 años se produjo un hecho trágico que ha sido contado de mil formas y que todavía despierta la curiosidad de muchas personas. 110 años atrás el Titanic, el barco de pasajeros más grande y lujoso del mundo, naufragó en su viaje inaugural tras estrellarse contra un iceberg en las heladas aguas del Atlántico Norte. Les contaremos esta historia a través de las metáforas que representa, hablaremos del «libro más maravilloso del mundo» que se sumergió junto con el barco que lo transportaba, narraremos algunos aspectos del mundo previo a la navegación y a la era del petróleo. También les explicaremos por qué el Titanic fue hecho «a la medida del siglo XIX» y desde luego que hablamos de la película de James Cameron. Todo esto en otro especial de nuestro año 02. Notas del episodio Algunos datos y hechos que hay detrás de la historia del Titanic La historia del Rubaiyat «el pasajero más ilustre del Titanic» En este enlace algo de información sobre la «White Star», la naviera que construyó el barco más célebre de la historia «Un libro que profetizó la tragedia» la historia de Morgan Robertson y el hundimiento del Titán Estos son algunos de los mitos que existen sobre la historia del Titanic «Qué es verdad y qué no» en Titanic (1997) de James Cameron   ¡Síguenos en nuestras Redes Sociales! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DianaUribe.fm/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dianauribe.fm/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dianauribefm?lang=es Pagina web: https://www.dianauribe.fm

Das erste klassische Rennen der Saison 2022 steht an, die  37. Mehl-Mülhens-Rennen - German 2000 Guineas auf Gr. II-Parkett. Eigentlich wird dieses Rennen schon seit 1871 gelaufen und hat eine lange Tradition. Wir starten deshalb diesen Podcast mit einer kleine historischen Exkursion, Catrin Nack und Frauke Delius erklären, was für eine Bedeutung dieses Rennen hat und wie es zu seinem Namen kommt.  Faust auf Faust - das heiße Wochenende für das Gestüt Karlshof und Holger Faust Gleich drei Pferde aus Karlshofer Zucht starten am Sonntag in dem Klassiker, Mylady sogar in eigenen Farben und mit großen Hoffnungen. „Meine Eltern werden in Köln dabei sein, ich reise nach Rom“, erzählt Holger Faust, der nicht nur für die Interessen des Gestüts Karlshof unterwegs ist. Denn er ist zudem Rennstall-Manager, betreut für Darius Racing mit Ardakan im Derby Italiano und mit Rubaiyat  im Premio Presidente della Repubblica gleich zwei Gruppestarter, dazu kommt noch der Hoffnungsträger Open Skies, ein Counterattack-Sohn aus Karlshofer Zucht, der ebenfalls im italienischen Derby läuft. „So ein heißes Wochenende habe ich im Vorhinein noch nie gehabt“, blickt Faust voraus, „so viele Chancen in so großen Rennen an einem Tag, das ist etwas ganz Besonderes.“ Die guten Dinger der RaceBets-Wettexperten Zum zweiten Mal hintereinander läßt Crocus als „Ding der Woche“ das Konto von unserem Wettexperten Ronald Köhler aufblühen, der auch mit Loft im Oleander-Rennen den richtigen Riecher hatte. In dieser Woche steht Andreas Sauren an seiner Seite, um in ausgewählten Rennen in Hannover, Mülheim und Köln die  Sieger zu tippen. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören! Ein Podcast von Frauke Delius.

The Somerton Man case is one that has confounded Australia for almost 75 years now. It all started when an unidentifiable man was found dead on Somerton Beach. The man had no wallet, no form of ID, there was no name written inside of his clothing as would have been typical for the time. And it seemed like all of this was on purpose. Things in the case only got stranger when a tiny rolled up piece of paper was found in a hidden fob pocket in the man's jacket. The words on the paper read “Tamam Shud” and were later determined to have been ripped out of a book of poetry written in the 11th century: The Rubaiyat. In part one we'll dip our toes into the mystery and in part two Ash will be taking everyone to the deep end of the pool for a serious dive into who the heck this man could possibly be and what the heck happened to him. As always, thank you to our sponsors: Native:  Go to Nativedeo.com/morbid, or use promo code morbid at checkout, and get twenty percent off your first order. ShipStation: Sign up using promo code MORBID for a FREE 60-day trial today at ShipStation.com and start saving with every shipment.  That's 2 whole months of discounted shipping, absolutely free! Noom: Start building better habits today. Sign up for your trial at Noom.com/MORBID Notion: Learn more and get started for free at notion.com/morbid Pretty Liter: Go to PrettyLitter.com and use code morbid to save twenty percent on your first order.

Wir haben uns in dieser Woche auf den Weg in die Trainingszentrale von Andreas Wöhler im Gestüt Ravensberg in Gütersloh gemacht. Frauke Delius fragt ihn nach seinen drei Top-Dreijährigen Hengsten und Stuten, den besten älteren Pferden, den zweijährigen Hoffnungsträgern und dem Pferd, in dem er das größte Steigerungspotential sieht. Nach Henk Grewe und Markus Klug, die wir in den Podcast-Folgen 116 und 117 gehört haben, ist Andreas Wöhler der dritte Trainer, den wir besucht haben. Waldemar Hickst und Peter Schiergen kommen in den nächsten beiden Ausgaben dran.  Das erste Gruppe-Rennen der Saison In Düsseldorf geht es in der Kalkmann Frühjahrs-Meile erstmals in der Turf-Saison 2022 auf Gruppe-Parkett um Sieg und Platz. Schafft es der neunjährige Lokalmatador Wonnemond aus dem Stall von Sascha Smrczek noch einmal dieses Rennen zu gewinnen? Oder haben der 2000 Guineas-Sieger Mythico oder der Galopper des Jahres 2019, Rubaiyat, die Nüstern vorn? Unsere RaceBets-Wettexperten Ronald Köhler und Andreas Sauren diskutieren über ausgewählte Rennen in Düsseldorf, nehmen aber auch das Comeback von Gestüt Schlenderhans Mare Australis gegen bärenstarke Konkurrenz im Prix d'Harcourt, Gr. II, in Longchamp genauestens unter die Lupe. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören und Wetten! Ein Podcast von Frauke Delius.

Our 101st Zoomcast (April 7, 2022); Our host #CharlotteSistaCFerrell announces that PBA will be celebrating National Poetry Month throughout April and expressing its theme “Speaking of Intimacy,“ and invites us to share images and thoughts about partner, personal, family, community and spiritual intimacy. We discuss the importance of trust for emotional and physical intimacy. Presenting a familiar type of intimacy, #CharlotteSistaCFerrell reads Love Time, Poem Time, for her book Heart Balm - Just For You. Lesley Hebert reads her culinary oriented poem, Love Apples, and Neall Ryon reads his poems Intimacy and In the Stillness, Dr. Ramona Srinivasan reads Dear Lover and Someone from Shilpa Sekha's book Echoes of Silence. #CharlotteSistaCFerrell plays her spoken word poem, Heart of my Heart - an appeal to a heart that has retreated from intimacy. Available on You Tube, Just for You, Jazzy Spoken Word. We discuss poetry as an act of intimacy with ourselves and Lesley reads A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread and Thou from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Neall closes with Rumi's poem True Love. Sponsored by the 411 Seniors Centre Society; The Government of Canada: New Horizons Grant; and G & F Financial.

Referred to as Australia's greatest mystery, the unknown, nameless Somerton man washed up on the shore of Adelaide in December of 1948, and has to this day never been identified. This death baffles law enforcement to this day, and the case is so opaque that not only do we not know the identity of the Somerton man, we don't know what killed him, and it can't even be said for sure if foul play was involved. The only real clue is a small slip of paper that was found in a secret pocket in the man's clothing, a piece of an ancient Persian poetry book called the Rubaiyat, printed with the words that roughly translate to "The End." Over the years, many theories have arisen about this bizarre death, including spy activity, a loving relationship gone wrong, or suidcide, but no one assumption answers every question. All that can be said for this case, even after so many decades, is that it is one of the world's most perplexing cold cases to date, and one of the most mysterious in history. If you are interested in learning more about this case, all of the sources are listed at crimebistro.com. If you have an opinion or a theory of your own to share, feel free to visit the podcast on YouTube or on Instagram @crimebistropodcast, to leave a comment and see some behind the scenes looks at the exciting cases to come!

Tertulia gastronómica semanal presentada por Jonatan Armengol. Un programa de radio itinerante, fresco y dinámico, que sale de los estudios para conocer de primera mano los mejores restaurantes, tabernas, bodegas, eventos culinarios, catas, concursos… Hablaremos del nuevo restaurante de Jesús Sánchez, con 3 estrellas Michelín, en el Hotel VillaMagna. A continuación viajamos a la cocina brasileña con Mariana en su restaurante Rubaiyat Madrid. Todo maridado con un vino muy particular procedente de la Denominación Pequeñas DO's.

Omar Khayyam laughed and enjoyed the good things of life. His "Rubaiyat," the most popular philosophic poem, is the best of all books to dip into for an alluring thought. (Volume 41, Harvard Classics) "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" first published Jan. 15, 1859.

Bangladeshi filmmaker Rubaiyat Hossain joins us for episode 12. In this conversation, among many topics, we discuss the roles occupied by, and often imposed upon, Bangladeshi women across lines of social class—and the constraints and freedoms found therein. Farah and Rubaiyat also get a bit nostalgic about life in the ever-evolving metropolis of Dhaka and their shared histories at Smith College. This is our first full-length episode without Justin Karas behind the interviewer's mic, but huge thanks to him for continuing the amazing behind-the-scenes post-production work! La cinéaste bangladaise Rubaiyat Hossain se joint à nous pour l'épisode 12. Dans cette conversation, parmi de nombreux sujets, nous discutons des rôles occupés par (et souvent imposés sur) les femmes bangladaises à travers divers classes sociales, ainsi que des contraintes et des libertés qui s'y trouvent. Farah et Rubaiyat deviennent un peu nostalgiques de la vie dans la métropole en constante évolution de Dhaka et de leurs histoires communes au Smith College. Ceci est notre premier épisode complet sans Justin Karas derrière le micro de l'intervieweur, mais un grand merci à lui pour son travail de post-production en coulisses!

Starting off with discussing Queen’s first International Education Week and why this event was such a good match to Rubaiyat’s own research. The purpose of her study is to investigate the influence of first language (L1) and individual culture of multilingual international undergraduate students (MIUS) on their academic English language (L2) writing, and how best to […]

Rubaiyat (poem), Translated by Irina Zheleznova (AZERBAIJANIAN POETRY, Progress Publishers, Moscow) [p. 121]

So you've listened to part 1.......you listened to part 1 right?.....RIGHT?!? Ok cool, just checking. But last  week we left you  on a cliffhanger.  We ended the episode by talking about a book , the "Rubaiyat", that matched the missing scroll removed from it's back page but also had a mysterious phone number written down as well. The number belonged to a nurse named Jessica Thomson. Who, coincidently enough, lived only 1,3000 feet away from where the Somerton Man's dead body was found. This week we get into who this nurse was, what role she may have played in the Somerton Man's life/death, and some theories floating around the internet that may have both her and the Somerton Man pegged as spies.  We also take a look at the work of Derek Abbot who has advanced the investigation of this cold case in recent years. He's also  championed the movement to have the Somerton Man's remains exhumed for DNA analysis for potential identification. As well as his strong commitment to this case ....so strong that he ended up marrying the Somerton Man's (potential) granddaughter.  As always follow us on the stuff Merch Store- http://tee.pub/lic/doEoXMI_oPI Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/Artandjacobdoamerica Website- https://artandjacobdoamerica.com/ Network- https://podbelly.com/ Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/artandjacobdoamerica YouTube Channel- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0rT6h3N2pWtlkxaqgIvaZw?view_as=subscriber Twitter- https://twitter.com/ArtandJacobDoA1 Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/artandjacobdoamerica/ ALSO! Make sure you're checking out our sponsors  https://cavemancoffeeco.com Suiker Apparel: Graphic Statement Tees & Accessories Use Promo code "AMERICA" for 15% off at Caveman Coffee  Use Promo code "Artandjacob" for 10% off at Suiker Apparel  

Shrika and Arzene Rubaiyat discuss the impact of specific social media platforms on business and charity promotion, specifically with Arzene's Etsy shop CraftsForCovid. We also talk about the new and unique CD painting format and how more unconventional mediums are highly appreciated and valued amongst our generation. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artivize/message

"Go quietly amid the noise and the haste..." The Desiderata is one of the smallest and most potent verses of western mysticism. Osho places it on a par with Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat and Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, and sees it a significant companion for those on the path.

Episode 4 : The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam… and Butterflies. Poem 1 : 'The Father of Butterflies' by Cameron Semmens; translation into Farsi by Ramak Bamzar. Music : ‘Viewed from The Climb' from the album ‘Separate Journeys' by Spike Mason www.spikemason.com Poem 2 : 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' compiled by Kamran Kuhestany; translation into English by Dr. Rosen. Music : Rod Gear www.rodgearmusic.com Title music : ‘A Warm Welcome' by Jared Haschek: jaredhaschek.com Podcast produced by Cameron Semmens : www.webcameron.com Photography and graphic design by Ramak Bamzar : www.ramakbamzar.com

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Bienvenidos a ERA Magazine, el podcast de la música independiente española. En el capítulo de hoy, nos adentramos en la psicodelia, el rock, la electrónica más underground de los murcianos Espiricom. Buenos días, como siempre, os quiero recordar que podéis ser mecenas de ERA Magazine, y ayudarnos a conocer muchos más grupos de música independiente de nuestro país. Es muy sencillo, entras en eramagazine.fm/mecenas y desde sólo 1 euro al mes, contribuyes a que sigamos descubriendo propuestas muy interesantes. Y, además, por ser mecenas tendrás descuentos y regalos relacionados con la música que escuchas en este podcast. Venga, entra y anímate a formar parte de esta gran familia independiente que pretende ser ERA Magazine. Espiricom lo forman dos conocidos del underground murciano: Alfonso Alfonso (ex-Schwarz y Artificiero) y Fran del Valle (también ex-Schwarz y Perro). Juntos han confeccionado este Trapezoide (Desorden Sonoro), siete canciones en las que guitarras, sintetizadores y baterías se entrecruzan, se dan la mano, pero siguen un rumbo dispar. Una búsqueda deliberada de la asimetría para encontrar la heterodoxia, del orden natural para transitar un camino propio, disidente. Espiricom no destaca por ser una música de fácil asimilación. Su rock, electrónica y psicodelia se sitúa donde siempre han querido estar: en el underground. Alfonso nos presentó las siguientes canciones: «Vino ardiente». «Rubaiyat». «Tecnomago». «Trapezoide». Con esta canción nos despedimos por hoy. También recuerda, que si quieres ayudar a este podcast, y seguir disfrutando de la música de muchos más grupos, visita eramagazine.fm/mecenas, y desde 1 euro al mes contribuyes a que sigamos descubriendo más propuestas emergentes. Sé un mecenas de ERA Magazine. Porque recuerda: a la gente le encanta la música indie, pero todavía no lo sabe. Espiricom Trapezoide (Desorden Sonoro, 2019) Facebook | Bandcamp La entrada #524 Espiricom, el rock y la electrónica underground se publicó primero en ERA Magazine.

PODCAST #13: SUFI LYRICS IN THE EGYPTIAN DESERT by Martin Bidney My month-long spiritual pilgrimage at the Sekem desert farming settlement in 2011 was guided by Sufi mentors in the Religion of Love. I Poet Omar as my Sufi mentor. Medieval Sufi Omar's most famous quatrain, from his Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as translated by Victorian interpreter Edward FitzGerald, begins, “A book of Verses underneath the Bough.” This world-famed four-line love song introduced me to the SUFI RELIGION OF LOVE. I emulate the “Book of Verses” love song in these poems, where I shorten the Omar lines by one beat to sweeten the harmonies: 82. So went the caravan away 77. The courtyard – filled with leaves and blooms, 73. Our worldly life was at an end [a woman's love for God] 63. The eyes that light the sky of her [a man loves a woman and God] 90. A vast and mighty [love of the Unnamable, my epigraph and epitaph] I also love Omar's lines beginning Myself when young did eagerly frequent and ending with the words I came like water, and like wind I go. This I emulate here: 69. Like water come, like wind I go [love every moment] 29. Now labor carefully to pay [theme of carpe diem, seize/love the day] II My Medieval Mentors in Sufi Religion of Love IBN ARABI 21. The curlew painted RUMI 22. The theme of union 34. Of poet Attar, Rumi said RABI'A 31. Just pure surrender – that's enough 46. O Lord, I hope each worldly thing III Shahid Alam as My Neighbor-mentor in Sufi Religion of Love 83-85 It is the month of Ramadan [legend of lifegiving love] 86 The coachman told: the glowing rose [miracle parable of love] 71 My friend, called Witness of the World [allusion to the Eastern Romeo & Juliet]

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In a major series for Radio 3, we rediscover some of the key thinkers and achievements from the Islamic Golden Age. The period ranges from 750 to 1258 CE and in these twenty essays, we'll hear about architecture, invention, medicine, mathematics, innovation and philosophy. In today's essay, Narguess Farzad, senior fellow in Persian at SOAS (School of African and Oriental Studies), recounts the tale of two remarkable and influential women poets, Rabia Balkhi and Mahsati Ganjavi.Rabia Balkhi was said to be a great beauty of royal birth who died a tragic death. She lived in the southern part of Afghanistan and from a young age, she loved to write poems on love and beauty. She fell in love with her brother's Turkish slave, Baktash. They began to meet in secret and write poetry to each other. When her brother, Hares, found out, he ordered her jugular vein be cut and that she be left to die a slow and painful death imprisoned and alone in her bathroom. As she was dying, Rabia found the strength to write her final poems with her blood on the walls of the bathroom. Her poems were not recited in public during her life time but won hearts and minds throughout the ages.Mahsati Ganjavi was an eminent Iranian poetess and composer of quatrains. She grew up in Ganjeh, now the second largest city of Azerbaijan. Mahsati was contemporary to Seljukid Dynasty who ruled most parts of Iran from 1037 to 1194 AD. She was a poetess laureate to the courts of Sultan Mahmud II (1118-1131) and his uncle Sultan Sanjar (1131-1157). Her quatrains (Rubaiyat), were full of joy and optimism - on the joy of living and the fullness of love.Producer: Mohini Patel.

On Thursday April 4th, 2013 the Hermetic Hour, with host Poke Runyon, will present a discussion on the Sufis and Islamic mysticism. This is a subject that is impossible to fathom and difficult to summarize. The reason it is so difficult to understand lies in Sufism's passion for non-literal, allegorical and paradoxical teaching deriving in part from its fear of being persecuted by orthodox Islam for heresy; a very real fear which endangers Sufi circles all over the world at the present time. We will briefly outline the history of Sufism and highlight the work some of its legendary teachers with their profound, and sometimes humorous parables. We will recall the famous Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, comparing the Western version to what Khayyam actually wrote. Gurdjieff's debt to Sufism will be noted. We will outline the so-called "Arabic Kabbalah" sometimes called "Abjad", and discuss the controversial book "The Other Islam" on present day Sufism by Stephen Schwartz. So, if you want to find out what you don't know about the Sufis tune in and be mystified.