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Redeeming Rumi (revisited)

To redeem: To take back, buy back, procure, deliver from sin. For some time now, I have been thinking a good deal about the poetry of Rumi in the context of the Turkish film Zenne Dancer, which opens with the epigraph: Dance in your blood, Dance, when you’re perfectly free. ~Rumi (1207-1273) More on Zenne … Continue reading