Motif
Book of Fate with inscribed or obliterated names
book_of_fate_with_inscribed_or_obliterated_names
A motif of the Death Attributed to Fate or Destiny family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
sufi
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The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam STANZA / STANZA / STANZA / STANZA; lines 4988-5043 confidence: high
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.
The speaker imagines catching the Book of Fate before it closes and having the Writer inscribe or erase names.
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