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Monday, April 23, 2007

Viva la Orient

Did you know? H. H. Munro, the renowned author of such delightful stories as Tobermory and Mrs. Packeltide's Tiger, adopted the pen-name (pseudonym is such a pseudo word) Saki, from the Persian/Urdu word for wine-pourer, bar-man, inspired from the last verse of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat?

(Before he adopted this pen-name, Munro wrote his only serious work, 'The rise of the Russian Empire.')

Though I write this in English, Orient Zindabad!

On a less chauvinistic, but related, note,

How greatly would mankind benefit,
If those two He-men,Bush and Ahmedinejad,
Dunces in their own right,
Gave up their respective 'right ways',
And took to common wine instead...

3 comments:

  1. saki means wine pourer in persian? any chance the word travelled to japan and turned into sake=rice wine??

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  2. No clue. My closest association with Japanese culture was a 10 yen coin in my collection as a kid ;-) Heck, I have'nt even had Sake yet.

    You tell me, you are the one who's been there, done that etc.

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