Dear Quddus,

This weekend i scored either a 4th or 5th edition of the Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam from the second hand book store.

 

Yeah, okay, i know you are thinking what, why did we not go to this magical bookstore when i was there??!! Yeah yeah, so the book is small, with a purply/brown (almost mohagany cover), with the name imprinted only on the spine and was either published in 1876 or 1889. I have no way of knowing which it is at this moment---but the inscription when it was gifted reads 1899. Personally i think the flowy script inscription would be your favorite part. You would no doubt make up some story about its journeys. I would have passed over it had it not looked so different from the rest of the tattered paperbacks it was nestled amidst. Nevertheless, i obviously couldn't leave it there and not give it a home on my shelves. One day, i promise you, i will have a library and a big leather chair and books stacked roof high.

 

As you know darling, i am a huge fan of both south american and middle eastern poets and Omar Khayyam was a persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. The word Rubiyat refers to quatrains (being derived from the Arabic for 4). let me know if you have a tea you suggest for reading such things.

 

love.

me.