Motif
drink wine in response to mortality
drink_wine_in_response_to_mortality
A motif of the Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication family, within the sub-family Wine, Consolation, and Mortality. 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 XXXI. / XXXII. / XXXIV. / XXXV.; lines 2932-2956 confidence: high
The speaker leans to the lip of a poor earthen urn to learn the secret of life; it murmurs, “While you live, / Drink!--for, once dead, you never shall return.”
The vessel and the related quatrain both command drinking wine on the grounds that life is finite and there is no return after death.
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