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The year 1048 is the year the city of Oslo, the capital of present-day Norway, was founded, and the year when Benedict IX was driven out of Rome for the last time.
My friend's e-mail announcement of Khayyám's birthday amazed me, as it always has when I'm reminded of it.
Although Khayyám, the great poet, philosopher and mathematician was born on May 18, 1048, and although I might just be alive when his millennium returns, the greatest part of it all is that we, "modern" Persian speakers, can still read him in the original and revel in its multiple levels of meaning—conveyed through choice of words, phrases, rythms and rhymes. Through his poetry, Khayyám keeps twisting us into some kind of ancient mental yoga in order to bring us to a pure comprehension of our simple existence in this world.
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Majid Majidi's Baran
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Posted by Trust Blog on September 02, 2005 at 11:27 AM PDT #
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Posted by saeed on May 03, 2009 at 11:36 PM PDT #