Motif
intoxicant as precious but reputation-damaging force
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A motif of the Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication family, within the sub-family Drinking, Social Disorder, and Religious Dispute. 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 LXXXIX. / XCII. / XCIII. / XCIV.; lines 4212-4244 confidence: high
The speaker says wine has played the infidel, robbed him of his robe of honor, and wonders what vintners buy that is half as precious as what they sell.
Wine is described as robbing honor or rending reputation while also being valued above what vintners might buy and remaining inseparable from the speaker.
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