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Title: | Why Cyrus the Great could unify Persia | |||
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| Name: | Mark Lincoln | | |||
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| City: | Houston | State: | Texas | | |
| Cyrus was a smart guy. A wise man. A dude who could see how to let people be themselves and join something more than themselves without surrendering what they were. The Ayatollahs have chosen to keep people from being themselves, demanded they submit to something less. I still hope to toast Hafez at dawn beside his tomb, with a fine Shiraz wine, and that cannot be while the current reactionaries rule. "Though wine gives delight, and the wind distills the perfume of the rose, Drink not the wine to the strains of the harp, for the constable is alert. Hide the goblet in the sleeve of the patchwork cloak, For the time, like the eye of the decanter, pours forth blood. Wash the wine stain from your dervish cloak with tears, For it is the season of piety, and the time for abstinence." - Hafez I wish to toast his memory, and not have to hide his, and my, joy. |
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