imprisoned in pots and stewpans, 

 are almost always inaccessible; 

 to know how to look at them 

 with laboriously-acquired indiffer- 

 ence and to practise to take no 

 notice of them, saying to yourself 

 that here are objects which are 

 probably sacred, since merely to 

 skim them with the tip of a re- 

 spectful tongue is enough to let 

 loose the unanimous anger of all 

 the gods of the house. 



And then, what is one to think 

 of the table on which so many 

 things happen that cannot be 







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