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The Rubáiyát

22 Dec 2022 - 17 Jun 2023
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    • By the 1880s, the book was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world, to the extent that numerous "Omar Khayyam clubs" were formed and there was a "fin de siècle cult of the Rubaiyat".
      • OK I can see it, join and get issued your very own loaf of bread, jug of wine, book of verse, maybe even Thou
    • Amazing:
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    • Did not know:
      • The famed "skull and roses" poster for a Grateful Dead show at the Avalon Ballroom done by Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse was adapted from Edmund J. Sullivan's illustrations for The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.