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Terr_ 36 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Finger: the 1971 social network that never died

> finger [...] dozens of pages of paper printouts

I know just the poetry to go with that story:

    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
    Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

--Omar Khayyám, 11th-century, translation

jzebedee 34 days ago | [–]

I'm always curious where these moments of serendipity get their start. How'd you come to read Omar Khayyám's 11th-century poetry?

poetaster 36 days ago | [–]

Bravo!

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