Clothes
And the weaver said, "Speak
to us of Clothes."
And he answered:
Your clothes conceal much of your
beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments
the freedom of privacy you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would
that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less
of your raiment, For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand
of life is in the wind. Some of you say, "It is the north wind who has
woven the clothes to wear." But shame was his loom, and the softening of
the sinews was his thread. And when his work was done he laughed in the
forest. Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the
unclean. And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a
fetter and a fouling of the mind? And forget not that the earth delights
to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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