Sleep Story 192 – The Village in the Jungle
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The Year of the Cultivator
The villages all belonged to the goya caste, which is the caste of cultivators. If you had asked them what their occupation was, they would have replied, the cultivation of rice. But in reality, they only cultivated rice about once in ten years. Rice requires water in plenty. It must stand in water for weeks before it grows ripe for the reaping. Even in a good year, the grain from the chanes was scarcely sufficient for the villagers. And just as in the jungle, fear and hunger forever crouch, slink and peer with every beast, so hunger and the fear of hunger always lay upon the village.
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