"A book of verses underneath the bough, / A jug of wine, a loaf of bread--and thou."

[icepixie]

Assuming the rain that threatens doesn't show up tomorrow, which should I do?

Poll

(Not-entirely-tangential-point: The Fitzgerald translation came out in 1870. I am up to the Victorians in my review...)

Comments

[gamesiplay]

The Rubaiyat is so awesome. (Uhhhh I tend to recite it when I'm drunk.) And influential on the Victorians! You can totally justify reading it.

[icepixie]

I can! And I will, when the weather doesn't suck. :)