Wolfram von Eschenbach Simulacrum
Parzival
c. 1170–1220
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The bow is bent and the string is straight, and it is the bent thing that gives the straight thing its force — draw the bow straight and the arrow does not go. Men call my telling crooked. Very well: bring me a passage where I bent and did not shoot, and I will grant it.
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