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The ewer replies:
"O low-witted, blind with pride,
listen!
Getting insufficient heat
the sticks not burning completely
turn into coal,
otherwise
they turn into ashes.
In this
the fault is either that of the fire or of the remaining water portion in the stick,
but
not that of the stick in the least. Don't you know
even so simple a thing?
Go, go anywhere! Talking much with you is welcoming faults!..." And
the ewer turns its face away from the pitcher.
"If talking with me is sin then... do not talk,
if looking at me pains you then... do not look,
but
mentally the decision you have taken
regarding the sin is perverse;
Silent Soil :: 377
