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XI Fraction To eat and to be eaten. The grain must be ground, the wine pressed; the bread must be broken. The true body is a body broken. Nothing can be sole or whole That has not been rent. Yeats, "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop." Cf. Dylan Thomas, "This bread I break." Frye, Fearful Symmetry, 290. To be is to be vulnerable. The defense mechanisms, the character-armor, is to protect from life. Frailty alone is human; a broken, a ground-up (contrite) heart. Cf. Weil, La Pesanteur et la gr&ce, 125. In the upper sector, the realm of the gods, "whose carefree life, dedicated to aesthetic pleasures, is indicated by dance and music. On account of this one-sided dedica184 /

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