Quatrain 40
Quatrain 40 of 75
“You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse
I made a Second Marriage in my house:
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.”
Reflection · Spring
Old barren Reason — the marriage that everyone is contracted into by default, the long dry relationship with the principles of logic and the demands of rational behavior, the bride that never laughs and always calculates. Khayyam divorced her. With brave carouse. In spring this divorce and remarriage is annually performed — every Nowruz, winter's austerity is released and the Daughter of the Vine presides over the celebrations.
The Daughter of the Vine is everything that wine represents in the Persian tradition: the irrational, the beautiful, the present-moment, the warmth and loosening that comes when Reason has been sent back to her family. The brave carouse is the spring carouse. Old barren Reason packed her things in Esfand and left. The new wife is here, filling the house with warmth and laughter.