batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l4988-l5043
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l4988-l5043
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
passage_locator:
label: STANZA / STANZA / STANZA / STANZA; lines 4988-5043
start: '4988'
end: '5043'
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 is an editorial sequence of variant stanza lines. It includes
a speaker dismissing grim talk of a harsh Master, Hell, and trial; fragments concerning
a sought crescent, a body after life has died, reputation and precious wares,
a fainting traveller, the wish to re-create the world and alter the Book of Fate,
and an address to Love, Fate, a sweetheart, and the recurring moon that will later
look for one absent person.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A speaker reports that some people describe a surly Master, associate his
visage with the smoke of Hell, and speak of a sharp trial; the speaker rejects
this tone and says the Master is a good fellow and all will be well.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: A draft variant says dismal people tell of an old savage who will toss luckless
pots to Hell.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: A brief variant line says one person saw the little crescent that all were
seeking.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: A variant line refers to washing a body from which life has died.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: A fragment mentions a fainting traveller who might spring toward an unspecified
goal.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:6
text: The speaker wishes the world could be re-created so that they might catch
the Book of Fate before it closed and have the Writer inscribe their names on
a fairer leaf or obliterate them.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:7
text: The speaker addresses Love and imagines conspiring with Fate.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:8
text: The rising moon of Heaven is described as looking for the speaker and sweetheart
through a quivering plane tree, and in the future looking among the leaves for
one of them in vain.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: one / another speaker
description: Unnamed speakers who introduce or respond to variant stanza statements.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: surly Master / old Savage
description: A harsh figure described by others as connected with Hell, trial, and
tossing luckless pots to Hell.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: folks / dismal people
description: People who tell grim accounts of the Master or old savage.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: us / luckless Pots
description: Those imagined as subject to trial or to being tossed to Hell in the
draft variant.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: the Writer
description: A figure whom the speaker imagines making inscribe names or obliterate
them in the Book of Fate.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Love
description: The addressee in the line, “Ah Love,” imagined with the speaker as
possibly conspiring with Fate.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Fate
description: A personified or named power with which the speaker imagines Love and
the speaker could conspire; also named in the Book of Fate.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Sweet-heart
description: The companion addressed by the speaker while the moon looks for them.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: rising Moon of Heav’n
description: The moon is personified as looking for the speaker and sweetheart,
and later for one of them in vain.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: fainting Traveller
description: A traveller described as fainting and able to spring toward an unspecified
object or destination.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: variant speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Unnamed speakers introduce statements in the variant stanza lines.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:2
label: punitive supernatural or master figure as reported by others
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The figure is described in connection with Hell, a sharp trial, and tossing
the luckless to Hell.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: grim narrators of judgment
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: They are said to tell accounts of the surly Master or old savage.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:4
label: potential judged or punished group
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The passage refers to trial of “us” and to “luckless Pots” being tossed to
Hell.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:5
label: inscriber or obliterator of names
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The speaker imagines the Writer inscribing names on a fairer leaf or obliterating
them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:6
label: addressed companion or personified Love
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The line directly addresses Love in a wish to conspire with Fate.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:7
label: power governing destiny
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Fate is named in the Book of Fate and as a power with which one might conspire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:8
label: beloved companion
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The speaker addresses a sweetheart while describing the moon looking for
them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:9
label: celestial witness or seeker
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The moon is described as looking for the pair and later for one in vain.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:10
label: exhausted traveller
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The figure is explicitly called a fainting traveller.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Hell and smoke of Hell
literal_form: Hell; smoke associated with Hell
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: sharp Trial
literal_form: trial
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: little Crescent / rising Moon
literal_form: crescent moon and rising moon of Heaven
associated_figures:
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:8
- id: sym:4
label: body after life has died
literal_form: dead body to be washed
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: Book of Fate
literal_form: book, leaf, inscribed or obliterated names
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:6
label: re-created world
literal_form: the world imagined as re-created
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:7
label: quivering plane and leaves
literal_form: plane tree and leaves
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Rebuttal of grim judgment talk
summary: A speaker reports others’ grim descriptions of a harsh Master, Hell, and
trial, then dismisses them by saying the Master is good and all will be well;
a draft variant intensifies the harsh figure as an old savage tossing luckless
pots to Hell.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Sighting of the sought crescent
summary: A brief variant reports that someone spied the little crescent sought by
all.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Washing of the lifeless body
summary: A variant line asks that the body be washed after life has died from it.
figure_refs: []
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Fainting traveller
summary: A short fragment presents a fainting traveller who might spring toward
an unspecified goal.
figure_refs:
- fig:10
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:5
label: Altering the Book of Fate
summary: The speaker imagines the world being re-created, catching the Book of Fate
before closure, and compelling the Writer to inscribe or obliterate names.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:6
label: Moon looking for the lovers and later for one in vain
summary: The speaker addresses Love and the sweetheart; the rising moon looks for
the pair through the plane tree, and the speaker imagines the moon later looking
among leaves for one of them in vain.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Skeptical rejection of punitive afterlife judgment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage contains reported images of a harsh Master, Hell, and trial,
but the speaker dismisses them and expects that all will be well.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage is an editorial variant note, and the speaker rejects rather
than endorses the punitive imagery.
- id: motif:2
label: Book of Fate with inscribed or obliterated names
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The speaker imagines catching the Book of Fate before it closes and having
the Writer inscribe or erase names.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: No explicit taxonomy reference is supplied for a fate-book motif in the
available list.
- id: motif:3
label: World re-created to alter destiny
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The stanza wishes the world could be re-created so that the Book of Fate
could be altered.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The line is hypothetical and does not narrate an actual renewal event.
- id: motif:4
label: Moon as witness to future absence
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The moon is personified as looking for the pair now and later looking for
one of them in vain.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The absent person is not explicitly identified, and the cause of absence
is not stated in this passage.
- id: motif:5
label: Ritual washing of the dead body
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: A variant line refers to washing the body after life has died.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: Only a single line is present, without a fuller ritual or narrative context.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 4988-5003
quote_or_summary: 'Variant stanza LXXXVIII: people tell of a “surly Master,” the
“Smoke of Hell,” and a “sharp Trial”; a draft variant describes an “old Savage”
tossing “luckless Pots” to Hell.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 5005-5007
quote_or_summary: 'Variant stanza LXXXIX: “Well,” said another, “Whoso will, let
try.”'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 5009-5011
quote_or_summary: 'Variant stanza XC: “One spied the little Crescent all were seeking.”'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 5013-5015
quote_or_summary: 'Variant stanza XCI: “And wash my Body whence the Life has died.”'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 5017-5023
quote_or_summary: Variant fragments mention credit being wronged in men’s eyes and
something not half so precious as the ware being sold.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 5025-5027
quote_or_summary: 'Variant stanza XCVII: “Toward which the fainting Traveller might
spring.”'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 5029-5035
quote_or_summary: Variant stanza XCVIII wishes the world could be re-created so
the speaker could catch the Book of Fate before closure and make the Writer inscribe
names on a fairer leaf or obliterate them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 5037-5043
quote_or_summary: Variant stanzas XCIX-C address Love, mention conspiring with Fate,
and describe the rising moon looking for the speaker and sweetheart through a
quivering plane, later looking among the leaves for one of them in vain.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: The passage consists of editorially presented variant lines rather than one
continuous narrative; motif candidates are therefore based on discrete images
and should be reviewed.
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 itself does not explicitly compare these images with another text, tradition, or motif family beyond internal motif identification.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg__l4988-l5043
passage_sha256=dce99025e92781deb696da4284b6323734166bb36831b8e7b65e03c97cf5647f