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@DeplorableShay @TheLastRefuge2 1) "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it"
-- The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Verse 51
Edward FitzGerald trans
Evoking Daniel 5: "Belshazzar's Feast"
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it"
-- The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Verse 51
Edward FitzGerald trans
Evoking Daniel 5: "Belshazzar's Feast"
@DeplorableShay @TheLastRefuge2 2) "The interpretation: mene, God has numbered the days of your celebrity and brought them to an end; tekel, you've been weighed in the balance and found wanting; peres, you are no longer of any use to us, and have been cast into the outer darkness." Daniel 5:26 (revised). 😉
@DeplorableShay @TheLastRefuge2 @threadreaderapp unroll 1) "The Moving Finger
