batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l8071-l8296
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label: E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR
KHAYYAM; lines 8071-8296
start: '8071'
end: '8296'
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 and notes reflects on sorrow, mortality, divine
planning, judgment, transience, charity, wine, cosmic fate, the nearness yet hiddenness
of the divine, renunciation, and the impossibility of returning from death. Images
include tombs and dust, floating atoms, dew on flowers, a destructive flood answered
by wine, grape blood, a potter's clay that speaks as a former man, a concealed
heavenly cup, severed bonds, an eternal pen and roll, a long road, and a dark
wheel that slays lovers.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Heaven is described as multiplying sorrows and taking away the joys it grants;
the unborn are imagined as possibly preferring not to enter life if they knew
its ills.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The speaker counsels against trying to foresee the future and says Allah formed
his plans without consulting the addressee.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The tenants of tombs decay to dust, lose knowledge of self and other things,
and their separated atoms float in the world until judgment day.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Earthly goods and pleasures are compared to dew on flowers that appears briefly
for one night and then is no longer seen.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: A quatrain says not to heed the Sunna or divine law, but to assign a portion
to the poor, avoid injury and abuse, and thereby be guaranteed heaven and wine.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The speaker is vexed by a wheel of things that favors the base and compares
himself to a rosebud wrapped against storm and to a tulip with blood-spots on
the heart.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: Youth is presented as the time to court the vine, drink from the cup, and
recline with revellers; a past flood of water that wasted the earth is used to
recommend floods of wine.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The world is said to be baffled in its search for the addressed divine 'Thee';
wealth and poverty do not find Thee, who is near while human ears are deaf and
eyes are blinded.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The grape's blood is personified as speaking and dedicating its life-blood
to the drinkers.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: A busy potter kneads a lump of clay, and the clay cries out to be used gently
because it was a man the day before.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: A cup is said to be hidden deep in the roundness of the heavenly blue; all
must drink it in turn when it comes.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: A seeker of Him is told to abandon child and wife, arise, sever ties to life,
and cut bonds as with a knife.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:13
text: The world is called a fleeting show, and the eternal pen is said not to unwrite
its roll for the addressee.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:14
text: No one is said to have returned from the long road travelled by those who
went before; after going, the addressee will return no more.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:15
text: A dark wheel is addressed as having slain many lovers, including Mahmud and
Ayaz, and as granting no second life.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:16
text: Roguish eyes are asked to turn away; the speaker compares obeying 'Look not'
to trying to slant a goblet without spilling wine.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: poetic speaker / addressed heart or soul
description: The speaking voice gives counsel, laments fate, addresses the soul
or heart, and responds to beloved eyes.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:13
- ev:16
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Allah
description: Named as the one who formed plans without consulting the addressee;
the note on the eternal pen identifies the pen as that with which Allah writes
decrees.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:13
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: tenants of the tombs
description: The dead occupants of tombs who decay to dust and whose atoms float
until judgment day.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: the poor
description: Recipients to whom a portion is to be assigned.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: comrades, revellers, and drinkers
description: Companions invited or imagined as drinking wine, reclining with revellers,
and receiving the grape's life-blood.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Thee / Him sought
description: The divine or beloved presence sought by the world and by the seeker;
described as very near but not seen or heard by humans.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:12
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: busy potter
description: A potter by the way kneading a lump of clay with force.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: speaking clay
description: A lump of clay that asks to be handled gently and says it was a man
the previous day.
role_refs:
- role:7
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: dark wheel / wheel of things
description: A personified cosmic wheel that vexes the speaker, favors the base,
slays lovers, and grants no second life.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:15
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Mahmud and Ayaz
description: Named lovers cited as slain by the dark wheel.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Illustrious Prophet
description: A prophet addressed in a quatrain asking when darkness is lightened
by wine's ray.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: unborn
description: Those not yet born, imagined as able to know the ills of life and to
choose whether to come or stay.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine planner and decreer
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Allah is said to have formed all plans, and the note identifies the eternal
pen as Allah's instrument for decrees.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:13
- id: role:2
label: mortal dead or formerly human
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:8
- fig:10
basis: The tomb tenants decay; the clay says it was a man; Mahmud and Ayaz are cited
among slain lovers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:10
- ev:15
- id: role:3
label: counseling and lamenting speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker counsels the addressee, laments the wheel, and addresses heart,
soul, and beloved eyes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:13
- ev:16
- id: role:4
label: recipient of alms
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The poor are to receive a portion from the addressee.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:5
label: wine companions
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Comrades and revellers are associated with drinking wine and receiving the
grape's life-blood.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: role:6
label: craft worker shaping clay
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The potter kneads a lump of clay by the way.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:7
label: animate matter with human memory
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The clay speaks and identifies itself as recently human.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:8
label: sought near divine or beloved presence
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The world searches for Thee; the seeker is told to abandon ties to seek Him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:12
- id: role:9
label: personified hostile fate
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The wheel vexes the speaker, favors the base, slays lovers, and does not
grant two lives.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:15
- id: role:10
label: addressed prophet
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: The line directly addresses an 'Illustrious Prophet.'
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: role:11
label: possible entrants into life
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: The unborn are imagined as choosing whether to come if they knew life's ills.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: wine, cup, vine, and grape blood
literal_form: Wine, vine, cup, grape's blood, life-blood, goblet, and wine's ray.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
- ev:16
- ev:17
- id: sym:2
label: tombs, dust, and floating atoms
literal_form: Tombs, dust, sundered atoms floating about the world.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: dew on flowers
literal_form: Dew that decks flowers for one short night and then is seen no more.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: cosmic wheel
literal_form: The wheel of things and the dark wheel.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:9
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:15
- id: sym:5
label: flood water and floods of wine
literal_form: A flood of water that once laid waste the earth, paired with floods
of wine.
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:6
label: clay shaped by potter
literal_form: A lump of clay kneaded by a potter and speaking as a former man.
associated_figures:
- fig:7
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:7
label: concealed heavenly cup
literal_form: A cup hidden in the roundness of the heavenly blue, which all must
drink in turn.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:8
label: bonds and knife
literal_form: Ties to child, wife, and life, called bonds to be cut as with a knife.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: sym:9
label: eternal pen and roll
literal_form: The eternal pen and its roll, which will not be unwritten.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:10
label: long road with no return
literal_form: The long road travelled by those who went before, from which no one
returns.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: sym:11
label: blind eyes and deaf ears
literal_form: Human ears are deaf and eyes blinded despite the nearness of Thee.
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:12
label: rosebud, storm, tulip, and blood-spots
literal_form: A rosebud wrapped close from storm and a tulip-like heart marked with
blood-spots.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Life's sorrows and possible refusal of birth
summary: Heaven is portrayed as increasing sorrow and withdrawing joys, while the
unborn are imagined as judging whether to enter life.
figure_refs:
- fig:12
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Divine planning and written fate
summary: The speaker rejects anxious prediction of the future, attributes plans
to Allah, and later says the eternal pen will not alter its roll.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:13
- id: scene:3
label: Decay, judgment, and the no-return road
summary: The dead decay in tombs, their atoms wander until judgment day, and the
road of those gone before is described as one from which no one returns.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:14
- id: scene:4
label: Charity, noninjury, heaven, and wine
summary: The speaker sets aside formal law in favor of giving to the poor and avoiding
harm, then promises heaven and wine.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:5
label: Wine and revelry against transience
summary: Youth, comradeship, vine, cup, grape blood, and wine are invoked as responses
to mortality and worldly frustration.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: scene:6
label: Search for the near but hidden divine
summary: The world searches for Thee without success; the presence is near, but
human hearing and sight fail.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:7
label: Potter and speaking clay
summary: A potter kneads clay, which speaks and identifies itself as a man from
the previous day.
figure_refs:
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: scene:8
label: The compulsory heavenly cup
summary: A hidden cup in the heavenly blue is assigned to all in turn, and the addressee
is told to drink it boldly when it arrives.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: scene:9
label: Renunciation to seek Him
summary: The seeker is told to abandon family and cut life-bonds in order to seek
Him.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: scene:10
label: The wheel slays lovers and grants no second life
summary: The dark wheel is accused of killing many lovers, including Mahmud and
Ayaz, and of granting only one life.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Divinely fixed fate and unalterable decree
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Allah is said to have formed plans without human consultation, and the eternal
pen will not unwrite its roll.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:13
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference is broad; the passage presents fate and counsel
rather than a full wisdom myth.
- id: motif:2
label: Death as bodily dissolution before judgment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The dead decay to dust and their atoms float about the world until judgment
day.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives an image of postmortem dispersal but not a detailed
judgment scene.
- id: motif:3
label: Transience of worldly pleasure
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Pleasures and goods are compared to dew lasting only one night, and life
is called a fleeting show.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: No specific supplied taxonomy family exactly names transience.
- id: motif:4
label: Ethical charity over ritual observance
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
- wisdom
basis: The passage says to give the poor their portion and not injure or abuse others,
promising heaven and wine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The quatrain is aphoristic and partly provocative; the taxonomy fit is
approximate.
- id: motif:5
label: Flood image inverted into wine revelry
taxonomy_refs:
- flood_and_renewal
basis: A flood of water that laid waste the earth is invoked as the reason to lay
oneself waste with floods of wine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The flood is used rhetorically; the passage does not narrate a renewal
myth.
- id: motif:6
label: Near yet hidden divine beloved
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
- mystical_quest
basis: The world cannot find Thee though Thee is near; human eyes and ears fail
to perceive the presence.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The figure is addressed as 'Thee' and not explicitly named in this quatrain.
- id: motif:7
label: Clay as former human body
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
basis: The potter's clay speaks and says it was a man the previous day, linking
human remains with remolded matter.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage implies transformation of matter, not a full resurrection
or rebirth narrative.
- id: motif:8
label: Universal cup of destiny or death
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: A concealed heavenly cup is said to be something all must drink in turn when
it comes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: The cup's exact referent is not explicitly defined in the passage.
- id: motif:9
label: Renunciation of family bonds for the quest of Him
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
- mystical_quest
- initiation
basis: The seeker of Him is commanded to abandon child and wife and cut life-bonds
as with a knife.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives an imperative image of renunciation but no extended
quest narrative.
- id: motif:10
label: Journey to death with no return
taxonomy_refs:
- afterlife_journey_map
- return
basis: Those who went before travel a long road, and no one returns to report on
it; the addressee will return no more.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
confidence: medium
cautions: The road is a compact metaphor rather than a mapped afterlife itinerary.
- id: motif:11
label: Personified cosmic wheel as hostile fate
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The dark wheel slays lovers and grants no second life; the wheel of things
vexes the speaker and favors the base.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:15
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied taxonomy family precisely names the wheel of fortune or fate.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The editor notes that the sorrow-and-unborn quatrain recalls Byron's 'Stanzas
for Music.'
claim_level: same_function
target: Byron, 'Stanzas for Music'
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: low
limitations: The passage gives only a brief editorial note and no quoted Byron text
for direct comparison.
- id: claim:2
claim: The editor compares the quatrain on the unseen near 'Thee' with a Hafiz ode
about the inability of eyes to behold Thee as Thou art.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Hafiz, Ode 355, as cited by the editor
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The comparison depends on the editor's citation and a short quoted
phrase rather than a full parallel passage.
- id: claim:3
claim: The editor links the quatrain privileging aid to the poor over formal orientation
or ritual piety with Koran ii.172.
claim_level: same_function
target: Koran ii.172, as cited in the editor's note
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The quatrain adapts the ethical theme in a provocative wine context;
the scriptural passage is only summarized in the note.
- id: claim:4
claim: The editor notes a parallel between the renunciation-and-bonds quatrain and
Gulshan i Raz line 944.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Gulshan i Raz, line 944, as cited by the editor
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The note supplies the target reference but not the compared text.
- id: claim:5
claim: The editor associates 'Miriam's food' in the wine-praise quatrain with Koran
xix.24.
claim_level: linguistic_similarity
target: Koran xix.24, as cited in the editor's note
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: low
limitations: The passage only identifies an allusion to Miriam's food; it does not
establish a broader shared motif.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 8071-8076; note 240
quote_or_summary: Heaven multiplies sorrows, removes joys, and the unborn are imagined
as deciding whether to come if they knew life's ills; the editor says this recalls
Byron's 'Stanzas for Music.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: quatrain 241
quote_or_summary: The speaker asks why one should try to foresee the future and
says to leave Allah's plans to him, since he formed them without consulting the
addressee.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: quatrain 242
quote_or_summary: Tomb tenants decay to dust, lose awareness, and their separated
atoms float around the world until judgment day.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: quatrain 243
quote_or_summary: Earthly goods and pleasures are likened to dew on flowers for
one short night, after which it is no more.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: quatrain 244; note 244
quote_or_summary: The quatrain says to give the poor their portion, avoid injury
and abuse, and receive heaven and wine; the note compares Koran ii.172 on piety
and giving wealth to the needy.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: quatrain 245
quote_or_summary: The speaker is vexed by the wheel of things, compares himself
to a rosebud in storm, and traces blood-spots on the heart like a tulip.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: quatrain 246
quote_or_summary: Youth is for the vine, cup, and revellers; because a flood of
water once wasted earth, the speaker recommends floods of wine.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: quatrain 247; note 247
quote_or_summary: The world cannot find Thee through wealth or poverty; Thee is
near, but human ears are deaf and eyes blinded. The note compares Hafiz Ode 355
on eyes beholding Thee.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: quatrain 250
quote_or_summary: Comrades are invited to drink filtered wine; the grape's blood
is personified as dedicating its life-blood to them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: quatrain 252
quote_or_summary: A potter kneads a lump of clay; the clay cries out for gentle
treatment and says it was a man yesterday.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: quatrain 254
quote_or_summary: A cup is concealed deep in the heavenly blue; all must drink it
in turn when it comes.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: quatrain 256; note 256
quote_or_summary: The seeker of Him is told to abandon child and wife, sever ties
to life, and cut bonds as with a knife; the note cites Gulshan i Raz line 944.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: quatrain 257; note 257
quote_or_summary: The world is a fleeting show; the eternal pen will not unwrite
its roll. The note says this is the pen with which Allah writes decrees.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: quatrain 258
quote_or_summary: No one who went before has returned to tell of the long road;
when the addressee goes, he will return no more.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: quatrain 259; note 259
quote_or_summary: The dark wheel is addressed as having slain many lovers, including
Mahmud and Ayaz, and as not granting two lives.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: quatrain 261
quote_or_summary: Roguish eyes are asked to turn away; the speaker compares not
looking to slanting a goblet without spilling wine.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:17
type: summary
locator: quatrain 260
quote_or_summary: An illustrious Prophet is addressed with a question about darkness
being lightened by wine's ray on every day and night of the week.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:18
type: summary
locator: quatrain 253; note 253
quote_or_summary: Wine is praised above the realm of Jam and the food of Miriam;
the note identifies Miriam's food with Koran xix.24 and names Bu Sa'id and Bin
Adham.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The passage contains many aphoristic quatrains rather than a continuous narrative.
Motif candidates are therefore thematic and symbolic, and several taxonomy assignments
are approximate. Comparison claims are limited to explicit editorial notes in
the provided text.
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: |-
Used only the supplied passage and metadata. Public-domain text was summarized rather than extensively quoted.
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