How you explore The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam on Literah
The cast, the places, the objects, the plot, and the author’s own words — each one a card in a feed you scroll on your phone. One at a time, at your pace, in any order you like.
- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 13 characters, 8 places, 12 objects and 6 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 29 passages of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as Omar Khayyam wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
- The same scroll, a better world. The gesture you already give away to feeds, spent on Omar Khayyam instead.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam feed, as it appears in your mobile
The plot of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- The Call of Dawn
- Wine, Bread, and the Beloved
- The Vanity of Kings
- The Failure of Knowledge
- The Potter and the Clay
- The Moving Finger
The author's pen in The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The passages themselves, Omar Khayyam's own words, as Literah maps it.
- Omar and the Mystic Winech. 1
- Morning Puts the Stars to Flightch. 2
- Awake Before Life Runs Drych. 2
- Wilderness Is Paradise Enoughch. 2
- Sultans In The Caravanseraich. 2
- The Cup for Todaych. 2
- Life Flies Forever Diesch. 2
- The Same Doorch. 2
- The Harvest I Reapedch. 2
- No More of Thee and Mech. 2
- The Clay's Pleach. 2
- The Grape's Logicch. 2
- Take the Cash in Handch. 2
- The Nightingale Cries Winech. 2
- The Rose Throws Treasurech. 2
- The Bird on the Wingch. 2
- Blossoms Scatter Into Claych. 2
- Lean Upon It Lightlych. 2
- The Wild Ass Above Bahramch. 2
- Neither Here Nor Therech. 2
The characters of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Omar / Old Khayyammajor
- The Beloved / Thoumajor
- Fate / Destinymajor
- The Saki / Cupbearersupporting
- The Pottersupporting
- The Clay Vessels / Speaking Potssupporting
- Saints and Sages / Doctor and Saintsupporting
- The Sufi / Dervishsupporting
- Angel of Death / Angel of the darker Drinksupporting
- The Rosesupporting
- The Nightingalesupporting
- The Muezzinsupporting
- The Vanished Kings and Heroessupporting
The locations in The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- The Taverntavern
- The Gardengarden
- The Wilderness beneath the Boughwilderness
- The Potter’s Shopworkshop
- The Market-place at Duskmarketplace
- The Cosmic Skycosmic space
- The Ruined Palaces of Kingsruins
- The River-brinkriverbank
The core concepts in The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- The present moment is precious because the future cannot be secured
- Beauty and decay are the same experience seen at different speeds
- Human knowledge reaches a locked door
- Fate is written, played, and irreversible
- The body is the site of both pleasure and metaphysics
- Wine is a contested symbol, not a solved code
- Worldly greatness vanishes into the same dust as ordinary life
- Ritual survives where certainty fails
The objects of note in The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- The Cup
- Wine / The Grape
- The Rose
- Bread / Loaf of Bread
- Book of Verse
- Clay / Earthen Bowl / Vessels
- Moving Finger / Written Line
- The Chequer-board
- The Ball
- Bowl of Sky
- Empty Glass
- The Door and Veil
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