Thomas Köner: Can You Beat Out the Sky, Hard as a Metal Mirror?
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Can You Beat Out the Sky, Hard as a Metal Mirror?
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Conversation between unknown people:
“Can you beat out the sky, hard as a metal mirror?”
“That’s a really old question. It was already asked a few thousand years ago…1)
Now, you’ve lived in Dortmund and the Ruhrgebiet for 40 years – what is it with the sky, what is it supposed to mean anyway, hard? mirror-hard? And what is being mirrored?”
“The sky over Dortmund is dull and lacklustre.”
“Then let’s not talk about the sky, but instead about mirrors!”
- “Can you beat out the vault of the skies as he does, hard as a mirror of cast metal?”, -Book of Job 37.18
Full Text with images (PDF) p. 72-75
