batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l3406-l3453
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l3406-l3453
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
passage_locator:
label: XLII. / XLIII. / XLIV. / XLVIII.; lines 3406-3453
start: '3406'
end: '3453'
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: The passage presents quatrains and editorial notes in which a first-person
speaker chooses wine over learning, faith, logic, and metaphysical knowledge;
describes marrying the personified 'daughter of the vine'; rejects concern for
unborn tomorrow and dead yesterday; and says that others have wrongly called him
a philosopher while he does not know who he is.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker says he will fill a one-maund goblet with wine and enrich himself
with two half-maunds of wine.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The speaker says he will thrice pronounce divorce from learning and faith
before taking the daughter of the vine as spouse.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: A quatrain says the speaker can define 'IS,' 'IS-NOT,' and 'UP-AND-DOWN' by
rule, line, and logic, but was never deep in anything except wine.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The source translation from O. 120 says the speaker knows the outwardness
and inwardness of existence, non-existence, and all that is high and low.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The speaker says he should be ashamed of his knowledge if he recognizes any
degree higher than drunkenness.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The speaker denies that his computations reduced the year to better reckoning
and says he only struck unborn tomorrow and dead yesterday from the calendar.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: A translated source quatrain says enemies have erroneously called the speaker
a philosopher.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The translated source quatrain says the speaker has come into a nesting place
of sorrow and does not know who he is.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: 'A couplet says grief has never lingered in the speaker''s mind concerning
two days: the day not yet come and the day that is past.'
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: The passage includes editorial reference lists linking the quatrains to manuscript
or edition sigla such as C., O., L., B., P., W., N., and V.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: First-person speaker
description: The speaker of the quatrains who speaks about wine, knowledge, time,
sorrow, and self-knowledge.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Daughter of the vine
description: A personified vine-derived figure whom the speaker says he will take
as spouse.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Enemies
description: People who, according to the translated source quatrain, erroneously
call the speaker a philosopher.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: God
description: Named in the source quatrain formula 'God knows' in connection with
the speaker denying the label applied by enemies.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: wine-seeking speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker repeatedly declares preference for wine or drunkenness over learning,
faith, logic, and knowledge.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:2
label: self-questioning non-philosopher
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker says enemies wrongly call him a philosopher and that he does
not know who he is.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:3
label: personified spouse
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The daughter of the vine is named as the one the speaker will take to spouse.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:4
label: mislabeling opponents
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The translated source quatrain says the enemies erroneously called the speaker
a philosopher.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:5
label: witness invoked in speech
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The speaker invokes God as knowing that he is not what enemies have called
him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: wine
literal_form: Wine named as filling a goblet, enriching the speaker, and being the
only thing in which he is deep.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: goblet
literal_form: A one-maund goblet that the speaker says he will fill with wine.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: daughter of the vine
literal_form: A personified product of the vine whom the speaker says he will take
as spouse.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:4
label: divorce from learning and faith
literal_form: A triple pronouncement of divorce from learning and faith.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:5
label: existence and non-existence
literal_form: Terms rendered as 'IS' and 'IS-NOT' and as existence and non-existence.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:6
label: calendar without tomorrow and yesterday
literal_form: A calendar from which unborn tomorrow and dead yesterday are struck
out.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:7
label: nesting place of sorrow
literal_form: The world or situation described as a nesting place of sorrow in which
the speaker has arrived.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:8
label: two days
literal_form: The day not yet come and the day that is past.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Renunciation of learning and marriage to the vine
summary: The speaker plans to fill a goblet with wine, enrich himself with wine,
divorce learning and faith, and take the daughter of the vine as spouse.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Wine over logic and metaphysical knowledge
summary: The speaker presents knowledge of logical and metaphysical distinctions
but states that wine or drunkenness outranks that knowledge.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Calendar stripped of past and future
summary: The speaker says his reckoning of the year consists not in improved computation
but in striking unborn tomorrow and dead yesterday from the calendar.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: scene:4
label: Denial of philosopher identity
summary: The speaker says enemies wrongly call him a philosopher and that, in a
sorrowful condition, he does not know who he is.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: wine or drunkenness preferred to formal learning
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The speaker divorces learning and faith, says he was never deep in anything
but wine, and treats drunkenness as higher than knowledge.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage supports a reversal or critique of formal knowledge; any specifically
Sufi symbolic interpretation of wine is not stated directly in the passage.
- id: motif:2
label: personified wine as spouse
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_marriage
basis: The speaker says he will take the 'daughter of the vine' to spouse after
divorcing learning and faith.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The marriage language is explicit, but the passage does not explicitly
identify the union as sacred or divine.
- id: motif:3
label: renunciation of past and future anxiety
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The speaker removes unborn tomorrow and dead yesterday from the calendar,
and the source couplet says grief does not linger over the future day or the past
day.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: This is a wisdom or existential motif rather than a narrative mythic event.
- id: motif:4
label: self-unknowing speaker in a sorrowful world
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The speaker rejects the identity of philosopher and says that in the nesting
place of sorrow he does not know who he is.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage presents this as reflective speech, not a developed mythic
plot.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 3406-3409
quote_or_summary: The speaker says he will fill a goblet with wine, divorce learning
and faith, and take the 'daughter of the vine' to spouse.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise quotation/summary permitted.
- id: ev:2
type: citation
locator: line 3411
quote_or_summary: Editorial references are listed for the preceding quatrain, including
C. 175, L. 267, B. 263, and others.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; citation metadata summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 3415-3418
quote_or_summary: The LVI quatrain contrasts logical definition of being, non-being,
and up-and-down with the speaker's depth only in wine.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 3422-3425
quote_or_summary: The O. 120 translation says the speaker knows existence, non-existence,
high and low, but would be ashamed of knowledge if anything ranked higher than
drunkenness.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: citation
locator: lines 3427-3428
quote_or_summary: Editorial references are listed for O. 120 and related versions,
including L. 523, B. 518, S.P. 299, and others.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; citation metadata summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 3432-3435
quote_or_summary: The LVII quatrain denies improved calendrical computation and
describes striking unborn tomorrow and dead yesterday from the calendar.
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 3439-3442
quote_or_summary: The C. 381 translation says enemies wrongly call the speaker a
philosopher; God knows he is not that; in a nesting place of sorrow he does not
know who he is.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: quote
locator: lines 3446-3447
quote_or_summary: 'The couplet says grief has not lingered regarding two days: the
day not yet come and the day that is past.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise quotation/summary permitted.
- id: ev:9
type: citation
locator: lines 3449-3453
quote_or_summary: Editorial references are listed for O. 20 and related versions,
including C. 23 and 55, L. 84, S.P. 22, B. 80, and others.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; citation metadata summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: Literal extraction is straightforward from the supplied passage. Motif labels
involving wisdom and marriage are candidate classifications; the passage itself
does not authorize broader historical or cross-cultural comparison.
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: |-
No comparison claims were added because the passage does not itself support a specific comparison beyond internal editorial cross-references.
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