Motif
unattainable object disparaged after failure
unattainable_object_disparaged_after_failure
A motif of the Pride, Hubris, and Downfall family, within the sub-family Forbidden Projects and Cosmic Overreach. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE MISER / THE HUNTER AND THE WOODMAN / THE HORSE AND THE ASS / THE FOX AND THE GRAPES; lines 915-949 confidence: high
A hungry fox sees fine bunches of grapes hanging from a vine trained along a high trellis.
The fox desires grapes, fails to obtain them, and then verbally devalues them as sour.
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