Motif
Beauty as snare for reason and self-control
beauty_as_snare_for_reason_and_self_control
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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persian
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The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan XVIII / XXVII / CHAPTER IV / CHAPTER V; lines 3065-3158 confidence: medium
The narrator recites Sa'di verses involving grammar and love; the youth says Persian would be easier to understand and adds that people should be addressed according to their capacities; the narrator replies that love has erased reason.
The narrator says reason is erased and the lover’s heart is caught in the youth’s snare; the holy man’s cave anecdote likewise warns that beautiful charmers in the city make the path slippery.
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