Sweat and pores

Meaning

The unnamed first-person speaker of the Second Response says that when he sweats, a sweet, lovely water issues from his pores like milk and honey. The image belongs within an enigmatic sequence of injury, healing, a crutch and a royal fountain; it is not an ordinary clinical case history. Poris is the Latin form embedded in the German sentence, translated “pores.” The comparison with milk and honey describes the emitted water’s sweetness and abundance of associations without identifying it as either substance. No biography, diagnosis or chemical interpretation of this speaker is supplied by the passage.