Omar Khayyam:
They call you Chosen One... the Seventh Excellent Creature.Are you also to be appointed Caliph, interpreting the Will of God, Supreme Ruler above all earthly kings?
Hasani Sabah:
If it were not so, I could not wear these robes nor hold this office.
Omar Khayyam:
You have named me your Counsellor, but
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Omar Khayyam:
I am happier with lesser matters, like this strip of vellum on which I have reduced the year to better reckoning. These figures will guide the lives of men when our mouths have been stopped with the dust of a thousand years, and the name Omar Khayyam is just as long forgotten...
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