happily, likeliness/truth doesn't affect beauty. ;)
unless you're into lauding old hellenic receptacles.
KS
2010/1/14 Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
> But extremely unlikely. Tho there may have been a lively trade in fake
> tears.
>
>
> At 04:04 PM 1/14/2010, you wrote:
>
>> beautiful
>>
>> 2010/1/14 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>> > psalm 56 KJV
>> >
>> > > 8
>> > > Thou tellest my wanderings:
>> > > put thou my tears into thy bottle:
>> > > are they not in thy book?
>> >
>> > !!
>> > Can this comment be correct ? -
>> >
>> > At the time, it was a Jewish custom for women to collect their tears in
>> a
>> > small
>> > flask they hung on a cord around their neck when their husband was gone
>> for
>> > a
>> > long period of time. When the husband returned, they would give him this
>> > flask to
>> > show how much they missed him.
>> >
>> > Max
>> >
>> >
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>
> Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University of
> California Press).
> http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
>
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