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16-21/8/2003
Tehran, 8-21 August 2003 (part III)
Peter Cameron2006-03-12 12:19:46
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was much smaller than Macdonalds size, and I was parched by the end of it. We went next door for ice creams, which improved things very much. I had some purple berry, chocolate, and Iranian ice cream (bright yellow with pistachios, like yesterday). Then they drove me back to the guesthouse, where I drank lots of water, emailed Charlie, said goodbye to Willem, and confirmed the arrangement with Mandana.
19/8/2003
A leisurely breakfast, and I'd finished writing out the solution to Charlie's problem before Mandana came.
We went back to the Sad-Abad palace complex. In one of the museums there is an exhibition of miniatures by a 20th century artist whose name I didn't record. Some lovely pictures in the classical style, some much more challenging and disturbing, like his illustration of Omar Khayyam's ruba'i where the dust is full of human faces and limbs.
Then we walked in the park discussing literature, ending up in a tea-house. Mandana asked if she could translate my poems into Farsi, adding "There is no copyright in Iran, of course!" She also said something which nobody ever said to me before: "There is no `you' in your poems." She wrote out two of her English poems for me, both very striking and effective. I pointed out that although they both have "you" in them, they are both first-person poems.
Then it was suddenly time to leave for IPM. We found a taxi quickly but the traffic was bad. We went out to lunch to the place where the chicken kababs came from, and had, guess what, chicken kababs... as usual, very tasty.
When I mentioned that I have six months' leave next year, Reza immediately invited me to come to Tehran in April. Something to think about, but I told him that Lyon have first claim.
In the afternoon I worked with the PSL(2,q) gang again. They had diligently found in the literature a general formula for mu(1,G) if G is soluble or
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Iran Gallery
