As I mention in the recording, I’ll be away next Monday, as I’m off holidaying in New York City. See you in two weeks!

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Read Richard Le Gallienne’s full Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Paraphrase from Several Literal Translations (1897) here.

Incidentally, Le Gallienne’s translation was featured prominently in an article I wrote for Free Inquiry a couple of years ago. It’s a very inspirational work (the poem, I mean, not my article!). Read ‘Faith and the Closing of the Universe’ here.

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Including from his essay ‘Wonder Tales’ in Languages of Truth (2021), his novels Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (2015), Quichotte (2019), and The Satanic Verses (1988), and his memoir Joseph Anton (2012).