You puritans on the cold stone floor, you are not safe
From the tricks of God's zeal; the distance between the cloister
And the Zoroastrian tavern is not, after all, that great.
--Hafez, (born 1315 Shiraz-died 1390 Shiraz) (translation, Robert Bly) from The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez.
If you missed the article in the Times about Hamid Karzai's move to legalize marital rape for Shiites here it is.
3 comments:
Wonderful post, Brent.
Wow. I love the way you pull this stuff out, Brent.
Hey, Sus. Here's the book it came from: The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez. I'm gonna add it to the main post.
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