Impossible task: filling a grain-bin through the hole in the bottom

Motif

Impossible task: filling a grain-bin through the hole in the bottom.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1023.2.3

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Filed under Task: carrying water in a sieve.

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