Motif
Wine as antidote to worldly grief
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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 QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM / THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 14624-14819 confidence: high
The human addressee is described as the result of four elements and seven heavens; the speaker urges wine because, once departed, the person will not return.
Wine is repeatedly urged in response to mortality, grief, hypocrisy, and the fading of existence.
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