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landfor the merest scrap for their two sons, while his mother gathered not only her grandsonsbut also the other children of the village to take their minds off hunger by tellingthem of the heroic traditions of their tribe: 'In the long ago our people lived inthe south where there were many trees and animals of all kinds to eat. ” “From the movie field?” She nods. and I thank you. There was an internal vitality he was trying to preserve, a vivaciousness he thought was diminished by the cr

As in the case of her own destiny, she was not completely aware of what death was,but the entire elephant clan and its deri In the silence I can hear the voices more clearly—rowdy ones; students, not proctors. of scurvy on a bleak, treeless, wind-swept island at the ageof sixty-one, his life and his work incomplete. '265'Yes, you do!''Who?''Me.