And I remember Ginger, when everyone knew her as Nancy.
tex
Marion Gunn wrote:
>
> That's NOT Khayam! Only Fitzgerald's translation, which I love, but suspect
> must be very far from the K. original on which he purports to have based
> it! Best, mg
>
> Ar 13:28 -0000 1999-10-29, scríobh John Cowan:
> >Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> >
> >> > Doesn't sound much like Omar Khayyam to me.
> >>
> >> I'm sorry. I also love Omar Khayyam. But even Khayyam (also a
> >> mathematician did like this when not writing in ABJAD (written with
> >> letters, some way like Roman numerals in western world.)
> >
> >I was referring to the quatrain which is translated:
> >
> > The moving ginger writes; and, having writ,
> > Moves on: nor all your piety nor wit
> > Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
> > Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
> >
> >(one of my favorites). My implication is that when the moving finger
> >writes numbers, it actually does have to backtrack! Omar as mathematician
> >was not in my mind at the time.
> >
> >--
> >
> >John Cowan http://www.reutershealth.com
> > jcowan@reutershealth.com
> >Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies / Schliess eurer Aug vor heiliger Schau
> >Den er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.
> > -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)
>
> --
> Marion Gunn * Everson Gunn Teoranta
> 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn; Baile an Bhóthair; Áth Cliath; Éire (Ireland)
> +353-1-283 9396, +353-1-478 2597. <http://www.indigo.ie/egt>
> 15 Port Chaeimhghein Íochtarach; Baile Átha Cliath 2; Éire (Ireland)
--
Progress Software: The #1 Embedded Database
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tex Texin Director, International Products
Progress Software Corp. Voice: +1-781-280-4271
14 Oak Park Fax: +1-781-280-4949
Bedford, MA 01730 USA texin@bedford.progress.com
http://www.progress.com http://apptivity.progress.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Tue Jul 10 2001 - 17:20:54 EDT