batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l3901-l3915
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l3901-l3915
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
passage_locator:
label: LXXV. / LXXVI. / LXXVII. / LXXX.; lines 3901-3915
start: '3901'
end: '3915'
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: In a thousand places on the road I walk, Thou placest snares
summary: The speaker addresses a divine Thou, saying that the road of life has been
beset with pitfalls, traps, and snares by that addressee. The speaker objects
that if all things are ordered by the divine and the world is not independent,
it is unjust to entangle the speaker and then count the resulting fall as sin
or rebellion.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker addresses a figure called “Thou.”
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: obs:2
text: The road the speaker must wander or walk is described as containing pitfalls,
a gin, and snares.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The addressed Thou is said to place snares in many places on the road.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The speaker says the world is not independent of the addressed Thou in even
the smallest thing.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: The speaker says the addressed Thou orders all things and yet calls the speaker
rebellious or imputes the fall to sin.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: speaker
description: First-person speaker who walks or wanders on the road and is subject
to being called sinful or rebellious.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Thou
description: Addressed power who is said to beset the road, place snares, order
all things, and judge the speaker as sinful or rebellious.
role_refs:
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
roles:
- id: role:1
label: human wayfarer or accused speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker walks or wanders on a road and refers to “my Fall” and being
called rebellious.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:2
label: divine orderer
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The addressed Thou is said to order all things, and the world is said not
to be independent of Thee.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:3
label: accuser or judge
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The addressed Thou is said to impute the speaker’s fall to sin and call the
speaker rebellious.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: road
literal_form: road walked or wandered by the speaker
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: pitfall, gin, and snares
literal_form: traps placed along the road
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: fall
literal_form: the speaker’s fall, imputed as sin
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Accusation against divine entrapment
summary: The speaker addresses the Thou and complains that the speaker’s road has
been filled with traps by that same Thou, who then treats the speaker’s fall as
sin or rebellion despite ordering all things.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: life-road beset with traps
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: The passage frames the speaker’s course as a road walked or wandered, obstructed
by pitfalls, a gin, and snares.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage emphasizes theological complaint rather than an extended quest
narrative.
- id: motif:2
label: divine predestination and human blame
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The speaker states that the Thou orders all things and yet imputes the speaker’s
fall to sin or calls the speaker rebellious.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: The available taxonomy has no specific predestination motif; divine_judgment
is an approximate family because the passage concerns blame, sin, and rebellion.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 3901-3906, quatrain LXXX
quote_or_summary: "“Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin / Beset the Road
I was to wander in, / Thou wilt not with Predestined Evil round / Enmesh, and
then impute my Fall to Sin!”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; quotation allowed by supplied metadata.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 3909-3912, translation from O. 148
quote_or_summary: "“In a thousand places on the road I walk, Thou placest snares,”
and “In no smallest thing is the world independent of Thee, / Thou orderest all
things, and (yet) callest me rebellious!”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; quotation allowed by supplied metadata.
- id: ev:3
type: citation
locator: lines 3914-3915
quote_or_summary: 'Reference note: O. 148, B. ii. 546; W. 432, N. 390.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata supplied.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Literal extraction is straightforward. Motif mapping is limited because available
taxonomy does not include a precise predestination/free-will category. No comparison
claims were made because the passage itself does not support a comparison to another
tradition or corpus.
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 supplied passage text and metadata were used.
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