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Review title: Why not just read them yourself without another person's interpretation?
Product review: Many of Khayyam's quatrains make it seem unlikely that he is anything more than indifferent with respect to religious belief, heaven, hell, etc. In any case, there have been a wide variety of interpretations. (e.g.Christopher Hitchensincludes Khayyam's quatrains as essential reading for atheists)Why not just read them yourself and make up your own mind? Several of the best translations are all free, in the public domain, and available online through Project Gutenberg or WikiSource. Look for Fitzgerald, McCarthy, Whinfield, or even Richard Le Gallienne's paraphrase, which attempts to maintain the witiness of Khayyam.Anything is preferable to having someone else tell you "for sure" what is meant - even if their analysis is correct, isn't it better to figure it out for yourself?
