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Now the New Year reviving old desires
University of Oxford, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Oxford, UK
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So then, another year, but the same old desires revived indeed. Rather than take a Latin text as a point of departure for this editorial, as has been my past habit [1], I have chosen to consider the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, here in its most famous English translation, that of Edward Fitzgerald.
The 11th century Persian scholar, Omar Khayyam, who we today remember mostly as the poet author of the quatrains, was during
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