[lit-ideas] Re: The meaning of life
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:03:19 -0500
"I never drink ... wine."
- Count Dracula speaking to
Renfield
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by
Edward Fitzgerald
John
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Omar Kusturica
<omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks again. There is a fair amount of
correspondence between the Omar of
> old times on Phil-Lit and me, though the issues of
personal identity are as
> we know not simple. Speaking of drinking:
>
> *YUSUFALI:* They ask thee concerning wine and
gambling. Say: "In them is
> great sin, and some profit, for men; but the sin
is greater than the
> profit." They ask thee how much they are to spend;
Say: "What is beyond your
> needs." Thus doth Allah Make clear to you His
Signs: In order that ye may
> consider-
>
>
> *A Drinking Song*
>
> WINE comes in at the mouth
> And love comes in at the eye;
> That's all we shall know for truth
> Before we grow old and die.
> I lift the glass to my mouth,
> I look at you, and I sigh.
>
> *William Butler Yeats*
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