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    Austin's Golden Rubaiyat: The Text
    Austin's Golden Rubaiyat: The Text
    Austin's Golden Rubaiyat: The Text
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    Austin's Golden Rubaiyat: The Text

    By Austin P. Torney

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    This edition contains the creme de la creme of my more omaresque quatrains, about 150, Inspired by Omar, I have endeavored to capture his spirit for more modern times, although I have surely been influenced by Edward FitzGerald’s translated gems.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAustin P. Torney
    Release dateNov 18, 2014
    ISBN9781310450563
    Austin's Golden Rubaiyat: The Text
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    Austin P. Torney

    Austin began writing for real around the age of forty, a respite from working as an Information Engineer in the field of Computer Science, doing programming, an art, as it turned out. He calls himself a humanist, and is one who enjoys the liberal arts, utilizing science, for it pervades every discipline. He is currently retired and lives in the mountains of Poughquag, NY, near the Appalachian Trail. He enjoys tennis, writing, fun, humor, thinking, sleeping, poetry, music, dining, travel, romance, reading, swimming, and life.

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      Austin's Golden Rubaiyat - Austin P. Torney

      Prologue

      This edition contains the crème de la crème of my Omaresque style quatrains. Inspired by Omar, I have endeavored to capture his spirit for more modern times, although I have surely been influenced by Edward FitzGerald’s translated gems.

      There is a companion prose version, ‘The Triumph of Life, Love, and Being’, in which a loving couple take a long, picaresque journey through the countryside to explore the joys and follies of the human condition, living out the quatrains.

      The Discovery

      Long before I’d ever heard of Omar Khayyàm, I had come to some of the same conclusions as had he, or so my friend told me one day, saying that I was already living out and proving Omar’s philosophy.

      Amazed that I hadn’t heard of Omar, my friend gave me a copy of The Rubàiyàt, one of those charming small-sized editions from the late 1800’s. Of course, The Rubàiyt struck a chord in me which was already resonating to Omar’s frequency, so I read it cover to cover several times, with both wonderment and amazement.

      The Insight

      As the years went by, I found other Rubaiyat editions and began collecting them. At the same time, I began writing down some experiences of my own, most of which I had either lived through or had seen through the eyes of my friends. It eventually occurred to me that I could write my own set of quatrains. Somehow, inexplicably, the verses came to me, as I lived through all the experiences described.

      The Human Condition

      My quatrains, like Omar’s, aim into the heart of life’s dilemmas, offering simple, common sense solutions.

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