In my cool room with the shutters shut and the thinshives of air and light coming through the slats, I cried myself to sleep in an overloud selfpitying transport.
A flat, widecork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.
2011, John Alexander,A Guide to Craft Brewing[2]:
If the conditioning continues to be fairly brisk, a wooden tut might appear to distort a little under the stress of the internal pressure, with the beer seeping out around the tut andshive.
There are some cultural details in Schissel’s story that are specific to the Jewish community: the family sitsshive (seven days of mourning for the dead), and the preference for silence at that time.
