Medicine's needBMJ 2005;331:1142 (12 November), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7525.1142
Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.
Delicious laughter: rambunctious teaching stories from the Mathnawi of Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-73). Compiled and translated by Coleman Barks. Maypop, 1990
Saturday, November 12, 2005
Rumi makes it into the BMJ!
From this week's British Medical Journal:
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Unfortunately Rumi is massively misunderstood and is often used as a mystic-tool in the US for wayward hippies(less so in the UK) I'd challenge anyone to really read and understand what he's saying most of the time, and as for Coleman Barks- a very very poor translator of Persian works. Sorry to burst the bubble (some pie would be nice though) ;o)
I couldn't agree more; when Deepak Chopra jumps on a bandwagon you know something's wrong! Coleman Barks' Americanised (-zed?) translations are far from ideal. I tend to always return to Arberry's abridged works for my quick-fix.
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