Motif
present life wasted like a spun thread
present_life_wasted_like_a_spun_thread
A motif of the Fate Figures and Cosmic Weaving family, within the sub-family Fate Threads and Life-Span Measures. 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 IN THE FIRST EDITION. / XXXIII. / XXXVII. / IN THE SECOND EDITION.; lines 4516-4537 confidence: medium
“Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spin / The Thread of present Life away to win-- / What? ... Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in!”
The quatrain explicitly compares folly to spinning the thread of present life away in a spider-like manner.
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