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Pleasure in pain
Omar Khayyam's recipe for a smile in hard times
Photographs by Shahrokh Golestan
January 25, 1999
The Iranian
From The
Wine of Nishapur (1988; reprint 1997);
Omar Khayyam poems translated by Karim Emami, original caligraphy by Nassrollah
Afje'i.
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