Chapter 11 pearl

One clam said to another nearby, "I have a great pain in my body. It's heavy, round, and I'm in trouble. " The other oyster replied with pride and complacency: "Praise the heavens and the sea. There is no pain in my body. I am healthy inside and out." At this time a crab passed by and heard the conversation between the two clams. It said to the clam that was healthy inside and out: "Yes, you are healthy, but your neighbor is suffering. It is a pearl of extraordinary beauty." The Pearl Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress."

And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."