27 A woman's impurity
It would be a misinterpretation to read
in these lines the expression of
an ultimate disenchantment, of a disillusion
in the "moral."
Nor should we conceive too high an opinion
of dexterity
or leprosy of persons, houses, and textiles
or skins
incapable of use as hands, and
hands were a prerequisite for further progress.
The phrase itself, however, is ambiguous.
Since
they also use their hands for manipulating