Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Daily Dose

From After Nature, by W. G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hamburger

A CENTURY AGO

"A century ago Edward FitzGerald,
the translator of Omar Khayyam,
vanished out there.  At an advanced age
one day he boarded his boat,
sailed off, with his top hat
tied on, into the German ocean
and was never seen again."

From VI

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