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An open ended barrel, it is shaped like a hive. It is filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive.
My first keeps time, my second spends time, my whole tells time.
What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?
Both punishment and sweet reward, It will befall both fool and lord. It is a spiritual scoreboard, Your every deed it does record.
A building where people and stories are on stage
What do you purposefully put lots of in and on your body, but run away from when you encounter it outside?