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Shabistari wrote an entire poem to answer fifteen questions

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Before online forums existed, you had to write a massive literary masterpiece to reply to someone. When a fellow seeker sent a letter containing fifteen highly specific, deeply confusing philosophical questions, Mahmud Shabistari responded by writing 'The Secret Rose Garden.' It completely broke down the fabric of reality, identity, and the universe, all just to answer some guy's mail.

Shabistari wrote an entire poem to answer fifteen questions
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