...Mister of the Show; LXIX. But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon his Chequer-board of Nights and Days: Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. LXX. The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; 114...

...(FitzGerald's) "Rubaiyat" itself: But helpless Pieces in the Game [God] plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. A sense of victimization and impotence lies behind the phenomenon of revolutionary Islamic integrism...

...the Master of the Show; But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. i»70^ The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And...

...Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. 49 The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Right...Left as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd Thee down into the Field, He knows about it all - HE knows HE knows!19 50 The Moving Finger writes;...

...Master of the Show;2i LXIX. Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one bv one back in the Closet lavs. For let Philosopher and Doctor preach Of what they will, and what they...

...following stanza. Or have the 6 EH Whinfield, The quatrains of Omar Khayyam, London, 1883, no. 401, p. 269; The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes, / But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes', E. Fitzgerald, st. L. 7 Whinfield, no. 432, p. 291. 8 The oqqalokka is defined by Redhouse as the equivalent...

...that there is always an enemy, or we would not be here. Of course. "On this checkerboard of Nights and days . . . Hither and thither moves and checks...and slays and one by one back in the Closet lays." Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam March 23, 1997. Sunday He suddenly saw and kept seeing what they had been...

...with her. 456 Moving on But helpless Pieces of the Game He Plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. — RusAivAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM Listening to her son's car receding until the sound died, Hiroko sighed,...

...old Omar Khayyam, we are only Impotent pieces in the game He plays Upon this checkerboard of nights and days, Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. What had this boy to do with it? He was not his own father; he was not his own mother; he was not his...

...son. All they got a key to is the shit house. And swear to me you will never wear a lawman's badge." Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. Playthings in an old game, the little toy soldiers are covered with rust, shaped to fill a forgotten...