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[Idle Miscreant]

Yeah, the Sheldon of early seasons would even quote Khayyam. Oddly enough, last night a documentary about Omar Khayyam was on TV. Unfortunately, I caught only the last 6-7 minutes of it, but I found a quote by Khayyam very interesting. He had written about how people would always 'mock those who choose the path of science, truth and honesty'. So, can it be that almost all geniuses, regardless of the time and the place they are born in, are destined to go through mockery and to be misunderstood at least at some phase in their lives?

And when the tiger gets caught in mud, the monkeys jump on his back, as I believe the saying goes (roughly translated). I think ostracisation, mockery and persecution are the unshakeable monkeys of anyone in the least bit extraordinary, to say nothing of those cursed with genius itself. And I’m sure they have their own demons to deal with additionally.

I’m familiar with the Rubaiyat. There’s usually about four copies at any one time in whatever hovel I happen to be living in….one of the perils of being an ex-antiquarian bookseller. I have a version translated into Scots at the moment, which can only be read whilst utterly blootered.

Sheldon’s quoted Khayyam before, I’ve just remembered, in Bath Item, to Penny;
“No, it’s too late. I see it. That elf sticker says to Sheldon. The die has been cast, the moving finger has writ, Hannibal has crossed the Alps.”

Fascinating.

And to continue on;


(By the way, yes, Welcome FranEssi, and delighted you approve of the site! Pajamas has done a fiendishly good job, eh? Dazzling.)