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...
saki means wine pourer in persian? any chance the word travelled to japan and turned into sake=rice wine??
ReplyDeleteNo 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.
ReplyDeleteYou tell me, you are the one who's been there, done that etc.
nice blog..thanks for the sharing
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