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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 



