Motif
cup used to drown existential memory
cup_used_to_drown_existential_memory
A motif of the Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication 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 XXVII. / XXVIII. / XXIX. / XXXI.; lines 1203-1224 confidence: medium
The speaker asks what hurried him hither and hence without asking and calls for repeated cups to drown the memory of this impertinence.
The speaker calls for another and another cup to drown the memory of the impertinent question of whence and whither.
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