Motif
affliction as furnace-burning
affliction_as_furnace_burning
A motif of the Mystical Quest and Interior Journey family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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sufi
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The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam XCVI. / XCIX. / APPENDIX. / PAGE 4.; lines 4371-4396 confidence: high
Khayyam is said to have “stitched the Tents of Science,” to have “fallen in Grief's furnace and been suddenly burned”; Fate's shears cut “the tent-ropes of his life,” and the “Broker of Hope” sold him “for nothing.”
Khayyam falls into Grief's furnace and is suddenly burned.
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