A Breakable Vessel

“Human Bodies”
by Yehuda Amichai
Paris Review Issue no. 122 (Spring 1992)

Do not give me your soul,
Give me your body I shall never know to the end,
Give me the vessel, not the wine.

Which reminds me of the Hassidic tale of the jug

https://berneval.hcommons.org/2009/04/20/jug-jug/

And so for day 2806
18.08.2014

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