https://books.google.com/books?id=R0BB-6agUfkC&pg=RA2-PA7 page 7 The Tartarian, or Scythian lamb, or borametz, is a plant, of which many miraculous tales are told. Travellers say that it exactly resembles a lamb, and that its pulp is similar to the flesh of lamb; and that it contains blood, &c.; but these accounts require confirmation. … https://books.google.com/books?id=R0BB-6agUfkC&pg=RA2-PA8 page 8, footnote † [The plants] appear to be originally the roots or stalks of certain vegetables, probably of the capillary kind, covered with a woolly moss, which, naturally naturally bearing resemblance to the figure of a lamb, have been helped out and brought nearer to it by art, and the addition of new parts. Sir Hans Sloane, and Breynius [Jacob Breyne], give us the figures and descriptions of such borametzes in their collections.
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Boy, you got wind in your jaws or somethin'? What you suckin' wind fer? Honh?
As in Goethe's description of the lighthearted kind of resignation in Poetry and Truth, the end result of light-heartedness is the blasphemous implied conclusion that all is vanity.
