batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l12913-l13101
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l12913-l13101
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
passage_locator:
label: QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM
/ THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 12913-13101
start: '12913'
end: '13101'
translation: The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: A sequence of quatrains urges the heart or soul to live joyfully in a transient
world, practice simple charity and restraint from harm, drink wine with fitting
companions, and recognize that time, destiny, dust, and death overtake all. The
passage includes images of a ruined world by water, beings reduced to dust, a
personified vine and clay, a difficult quest for the divine, a serpent of grief
treated by wine as antidote, and a heavenly wheel that keeps secrets and destroys
kings and favorites.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The heart is told to imagine the world's goods as its own and to live joyfully
in a richly furnished but disordered domain for only a few days before rising
and going away.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: 'The speaker describes religious obligation in practical terms: share bread,
avoid evil speech, render evil to no one, and bring wine.'
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The speaker says life passes rapidly through time in grief and sorrow, with
the heart compared to a hard green rosebud and a blood-dipped tulip.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The passage says water once ruined and annihilated the world, and contrasts
this with a call to drown oneself in wine.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: Wine is requested from a ruby vessel into a crystal cup, while all beings
are described as dust that a brief tempest makes disappear.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: A divine addressee is described as the object of a quest that leaves all dizzy
and distressed; both dervish and rich lack means of reaching that figure.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The divine name is said to be in everyone's speech while all are deaf, and
the divine presence before everyone's eyes while all are blind.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: Wine is praised in the company of a dear friend or intelligent companions,
while drinking with a violent, uncontrolled boor is discouraged.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:12
- id: obs:9
text: Possessions are described as only what God has given; the final drama consists
in leaving all and passing beyond.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: Wine is called limpid nectar and the blood of the vine; the vine is made to
say that the drinker may drink of it.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:11
text: A potter in a bazaar treads clay, and the clay speaks, saying it too has been
like the potter and should be treated less harshly.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: Grief is figured as a serpent bite, and wine is described as an antidote to
it.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:13
text: At dawn, a beardless youth is asked to fill a crystal cup with ruby wine because
such a moment of existence in the world of nothingness may not be found again.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:14
text: The foundation of worldly things is called fiction, and a heavenly brush is
said to have traced a lot that cannot be effaced.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:15
text: Those who have taken the long road are said not to have returned, and the
passage repeats that none who leave the world can return or have life restored.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- ev:19
- id: obs:16
text: The wheel of heaven is described as telling secrets to no one and as having
killed many Mahmouds and Ayazes.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: poetic speaker
description: The voice that exhorts the heart, soul, friends, and youth; it repeatedly
asks for wine and reflects on divine quest, destiny, and mortality.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:14
- ev:17
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: heart or soul
description: An internal addressee urged to live joyfully, avoid burden, and reflect
on the world's fictional foundation.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- ev:16
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Divinity, God, or the divine Thou
description: A divine figure to whom obligation is owed, who gives possessions,
and whom neither dervish nor rich can reach by their own means.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: dervish and rich
description: Two social types named together as equally without means of reaching
the divine addressee.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: potter
description: A bazaar potter vigorously treading clay he is molding.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: personified clay
description: Clay that seems to speak to the potter, claiming to have once been
like him and asking for gentler treatment.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: wine companions
description: Dear friends, intelligent people, charming idols, and also unsuitable
boorish drinkers are described as possible companions in drinking scenes.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:12
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: beardless youth
description: A youth addressed at dawn and told to fill the crystal cup with ruby
wine.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: wheel of heaven
description: A celestial wheel that withholds secrets and is said to have killed
many rulers and favorites.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: 'named exemplars: Jemshid, the Virgin, Adhem, Bou-Saïd, Mahmoud,
Ayaz'
description: Figures invoked as points of comparison or examples of power, sanctity,
lamentation, rulership, and favored status.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- ev:19
roles:
- id: role:1
label: exhorting reflective voice
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker issues imperatives, interprets worldly transience, and repeatedly
calls for wine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:17
- id: role:2
label: addressed inner self
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The heart and soul are directly addressed and instructed about joy, burden,
destiny, and mortality.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- ev:16
- id: role:3
label: divine giver and inaccessible quest-object
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The passage refers to obligation to Divinity, what God has given, and a divine
Thou whom all fail to reach despite speaking the name and seeing the presence.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: role:4
label: contrasted seekers without means
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The dervish and rich are named as equally unable to reach the divine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:5
label: molder of clay
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The potter treads and molds clay in the bazaar.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: role:6
label: speaking material linked to former human state
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The clay appears to speak, saying it has also been like the potter.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: role:7
label: proper and improper ritual-social companions
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The passage distinguishes drinking with friends or intelligent people from
drinking with a violent uncontrolled man.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:12
- id: role:8
label: dawn cup-bearer addressee
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The youth is told at dawn to fill the cup with wine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: role:9
label: celestial destroyer and keeper of secrets
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The wheel of heaven is said to reveal secrets to no one and to have killed
many named types of great persons.
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: role:10
label: exemplary names for worldly power, sanctity, or mortality
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: Named figures are used in comparisons involving wine, lamentation, heaven-sent
fruits, and the destruction of rulers and favorites.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- ev:19
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: wine
literal_form: wine, rose-colored wine, ruby wine, limpid nectar, blood of the vine
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:7
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:9
- ev:12
- ev:14
- id: sym:2
label: water that annihilated the world
literal_form: water that once brought ruin to the world by annihilating it
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:3
label: dust and clay
literal_form: dust, clay molded by the potter, earth
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:11
- ev:13
- ev:18
- id: sym:4
label: cup and vessel
literal_form: ruby vessel, simple crystal cup, crystal cup
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:14
- id: sym:5
label: garden, rosebud, tulip, and flowers
literal_form: garden of being, green bud of a rose, tulip dipped in blood, season
of flowers
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:10
- ev:12
- id: sym:6
label: serpent of grief
literal_form: serpent of grief biting the friend
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- serpent
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:7
label: long road
literal_form: the long road taken by those who do not return
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: sym:8
label: heavenly brush
literal_form: brush that has traced the person's lot
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: sym:9
label: wheel of heaven
literal_form: celestial wheel that tells no secrets and kills great figures
associated_figures:
- fig:9
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: sym:10
label: bread
literal_form: morsel of bread to be shared with others
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: temporary stay in the furnished house of the world
summary: The heart is told to enjoy the imagined abundance of the world while recognizing
that the stay lasts only a few days before departure.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: ethical obligations and wine request
summary: The speaker frames religion as obligation to the Divinity expressed through
sharing bread, refraining from evil speech, doing no harm, and asking for wine.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: life carried by time through grief
summary: The speaker describes life passing through time in a gulf of sorrow, using
garden, rosebud, and blood-red tulip imagery for the heart.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: world-annihilating water and chosen wine
summary: The passage contrasts water that once ruined the world with the choice
to drown life in wine.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: beings as dust before wine is poured
summary: Wine is requested from vessel to cup while beings are described as dust
dispersed by a brief tempest.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: unreachable divine presence
summary: The divine addressee is sought by all, but dervish and rich alike lack
means of reaching the divine; people speak the divine name and see the divine
presence yet are deaf and blind.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:7
label: rules and companions for drinking
summary: Wine is commended with a dear friend, intelligent companions, and charming
idols, but not with a violent uncontrolled drinker; moderation and quietude are
advised.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:12
- id: scene:8
label: vine, nectar, and lawful drinking
summary: Wine is described as nectar and the blood of the vine, and the vine is
personified as inviting the addressee to drink.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: scene:9
label: potter and speaking clay
summary: In a bazaar, a potter treads clay, which appears to speak and asks for
gentler treatment because it too has been like him.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: scene:10
label: serpent of grief and wine antidote
summary: The friend is described as bitten by the serpent of grief and is told to
drink wine as an antidote.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: scene:11
label: dawn cup in a fleeting world
summary: At dawn, a youth is told to fill the crystal cup with ruby wine because
this moment of existence in a world of nothingness may not return.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: scene:12
label: destiny, long road, and the wheel of heaven
summary: The passage says worldly foundations are fiction, destiny's traced lot
cannot be erased, those who take the long road do not return, and the wheel of
heaven destroys rulers and favorites while revealing no secrets.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
- sym:8
- sym:9
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- ev:17
- ev:18
- ev:19
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: transient world as temporary lodging before departure
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
basis: The world is treated as a place of brief residence, after which the addressee
rises, goes away, leaves all, and passes beyond.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The passage emphasizes departure and impermanence rather than a detailed
journey itinerary.
- id: motif:2
label: inaccessible divine quest
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
- divine_beloved
basis: The divine Thou is the object of a quest that renders all distressed; both
dervish and rich lack means of reaching the divine despite universal speech and
sight.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The passage does not narrate a completed union or ascent.
- id: motif:3
label: world destroyed by water
taxonomy_refs:
- flood_and_renewal
- chaos
basis: The text explicitly states that water once brought ruin to the world by annihilating
it.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: Only destruction by water is mentioned; renewal, survivors, or a flood
narrative are not elaborated in this passage.
- id: motif:4
label: wine as answer to mortality and sorrow
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Wine is repeatedly requested or praised amid statements about dust, grief,
fleeting existence, no return from death, and the serpent of grief.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:13
- ev:14
- ev:19
confidence: high
cautions: The passage presents wine literally and poetically; any further doctrinal
allegory would require external interpretation.
- id: motif:5
label: human body returned to clay
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
basis: All beings are described as dust, and clay being trodden by a potter says
it has once been like the potter.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:11
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage implies material transformation after death but does not explicitly
narrate rebirth.
- id: motif:6
label: fate inscribed by heaven
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The lot traced by the heavenly brush cannot be effaced, and the wheel of
heaven withholds secrets while killing rulers and favorites.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- ev:19
confidence: high
cautions: No available taxonomy reference exactly matches astral fate or predestination.
- id: motif:7
label: no return from the road of death
taxonomy_refs:
- afterlife_journey_map
- return
basis: Those who have taken the long road are said not to return, and no one who
has left the world can have life restored.
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- ev:19
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage denies return rather than mapping stages of an afterlife journey.
- id: motif:8
label: ethical wisdom reduced to charity and harmlessness
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The speaker summarizes religious obligation as sharing bread, avoiding evil
speech, and rendering evil to no one.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: This is aphoristic ethical instruction rather than a narrative wisdom
tale.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The mention of water that annihilated the world supports a cautious link
to a flood or world-destruction-by-water motif family.
claim_level: same_motif
target: flood_and_renewal motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage provides only a brief allusion to watery annihilation and
does not include ark, survivors, covenant, or renewal details.
- id: claim:2
claim: The divine Thou who is universally named and seen yet unreachable functions
like a mystical quest or divine beloved pattern in which the sought object is
present but inaccessible.
claim_level: same_function
target: mystical_quest and divine_beloved motif families
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage does not narrate a quest sequence or union; it states the
paradox of seeking and inability to reach.
- id: claim:3
claim: The speaking clay under the potter's foot can be cautiously grouped with
mortality motifs in which human substance returns to earth or clay.
claim_level: same_function
target: death_rebirth motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:11
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: low
limitations: The passage emphasizes mortality and shared material condition, but
explicit rebirth is absent.
- id: claim:4
claim: Repeated statements that none return from the long road or from leaving the
world align functionally with no-return death journey patterns.
claim_level: same_function
target: afterlife_journey_map and return motif families
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- ev:19
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage negates return and gives no geography, guide, judgment
scene, or afterlife stages.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 12913-12919; quatrain 199
quote_or_summary: The heart is told to enjoy the imagined abundance of the world,
realizing it rests there only two or three days before rising and going away.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 12921-12928; quatrain 200
quote_or_summary: Religious obligation is summarized as obligation to Divinity,
sharing one's bread, not speaking evil, doing evil to no one, and then asking
for wine.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 12930-12937; quatrain 201
quote_or_summary: The speaker is dragged through time; life passes in grief, and
the heart is compared to a hard green rosebud and a tulip dipped in blood.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 12939-12945; quatrain 202
quote_or_summary: Youth belongs to wine and beauty; “water once brought ruin to
this world by annihilating it,” so the speaker chooses to drown in wine.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 12947-12953; quatrain 203
quote_or_summary: Wine is requested from a ruby vessel into a crystal cup; all beings
are dust and a two-day tempest makes them disappear.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 12955-12962; quatrain 204
quote_or_summary: The divine Thou is the object of a distressing quest; dervish
and rich lack means to reach Thee; all speak the name but are deaf, and all see
the presence but are blind.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 12964-12976; quatrains 205-206
quote_or_summary: Wine with a dear friend is pleasing, but drinking with a violent
uncontrolled boor causes disorder, noise, folly, and later apologies.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 12978-12983; quatrain 207
quote_or_summary: One possesses only what God has given; the heart should not be
overburdened, because the final drama is leaving all and passing beyond.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 12985-12991; quatrain 208
quote_or_summary: The soul is told to drink limpid nectar in memory of charming
idols; wine is called the blood of the vine, and the vine tells the hearer to
drink.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 12993-13004; quatrains 209-210
quote_or_summary: In the season of flowers, rose-colored wine is drunk with lute
and harp; the sad are told to take hashish or wine and thereby become a Sufi,
while abstainers are mockingly told to eat pebbles.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 13006-13011; quatrain 211
quote_or_summary: The speaker sees a potter in a bazaar treading clay; the clay
seems to say that it too has been like the potter and should be treated less harshly.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 13013-13020; quatrain 212
quote_or_summary: Wine should be drunk with intelligent people and ravishing idols,
not too much, not boastfully, but quietly from time to time.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 13022-13030; quatrain 213
quote_or_summary: Wine is advised in the company of heart-ravishing slender creatures;
one bitten by the serpent of grief should drink this antidote; abstainers are
told to eat earth.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: lines 13032-13037; quatrain 214
quote_or_summary: At dawn, a beardless youth is told to fill a crystal cup with
ruby wine because such a moment of existence in this world of nothingness may
not be found again.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: lines 13039-13045; quatrain 215
quote_or_summary: The speaker chooses wine over Jemshid's throne; the cup's bouquet
surpasses heavenly fruits, and an inebriate morning sigh is preferred to laments
of Adhem or Bou-Saïd.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: lines 13047-13054; quatrain 216
quote_or_summary: The heart is told that the foundation of worldly things is fiction;
it should trust destiny and endure evil, because the lot traced by the heavenly
brush cannot be effaced.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:17
type: summary
locator: lines 13056-13061; quatrain 217
quote_or_summary: Those who have taken the long road have not returned to give news;
the friend is warned not to hope in the sordid world because he will not return
here.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:18
type: summary
locator: lines 13063-13069; quatrain 218
quote_or_summary: Each night and day cuts off part of existence; the addressee should
not let them cover him with dust, but pass them gaily before absence.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:19
type: summary
locator: lines 13071-13078; quatrain 219
quote_or_summary: The wheel of heaven tells secrets to no one and has killed many
Mahmouds and Ayazes; wine is urged because no one's life is restored and none
who leave the world return.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Literal extraction is strong because the passage is explicit. Motif mapping
is more cautious where the passage provides only brief allusions, especially flood
renewal, death-rebirth, and afterlife journey patterns.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
Only the provided passage and supplied taxonomy references were used. Interpretive Sufi allegory beyond the passage wording has been avoided.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg__l12913-l13101
passage_sha256=0ee10772198cdbbd5dd021dbbd4c80f27e17d09c18f518b22a3a1211ed660b8a