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• Here are three vessels full of life.
• A mighty water torrent comes gushing down the mountain cup in the middle.
• The Romans were known to worship flowing water and associated it with the passage of time.
• A man and woman would raise their glasses to life together. That life would be measured by a water clock.
Alexander Pushkin, in his poem “To Kern” described how the days drag painfully by “without grace, without inspiration, without life, without tears, without love.” We could say that time spent together is when we drink from the full cup of life. The two glasses in the painting are filled, and the third – the glass of nature – provides a way of telling the time.