7/17/09

The Friday OT: The Philosopher's Song and Omar Kayyam

Another quick snip of Python:



This Friday OT is accompanied by a small chunk of The Rubáiyát by Omar Kayyám*. Enjoy your weekend...and hey, pour yourself a glass of wine while you're at it.

Yesterday this day’s madness did prepare;
Tomorrow’s silence, triumph, or despair:
Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why:
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

*Thinking about it large chunks of Rubáiyát would be fine cos the whole thing is about getting sloshed, but let's keep it at a single quatrain.

5 comments:

joey said...

Drink???
well, then:

Awake, my little ones, and fill the cup
Before life's liquor in its cup be dry...

hoisting one to you, Otto.

celticlion said...

Omar Kayyam?

Try this comment from BBC Newsnights blog. This week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/fromthewebteam/2009/07/monday_13_july_2009.html#P82852232

celticlion said...

Joey this is the Doors awake. before the words he I am pretty sure his says Awake,
Shake dreams from your hair
My pretty child, my sweet one.
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day
The day's divinity
First thing you see.
A vast radiant beach in a cool jeweled moon
Couples naked race down by it's quiet side
And we laugh like soft, mad children
Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy
The music and voices are all around us.
Choose they croon the Ancient Ones
The time has come again
Choose now, they croon
Beneath the moon
Beside an ancient lake
Enter again the sweet forest
Enter the hot dream
Come with us
Everything is broken up and dances.

RickB said...

Bruce?

Otto Rock said...

What's new Bruce teach?