Consider ten thousand South Thailanders. One deals in dogs, another cats. Between the two exists the most horrific exchange, a constantly flowing market of horrific mongrels. The driving force of this exchange isn’t some seeking of profit, but solely the morbid curiosity to see what will come of the next generation to be bred. At what point do the cat and dog hybridize? The genus felis combines with the canis. What would it be called? What would it wish to be called?
Consider ten thousand South Thailanders. One is a fisherman, gliding along the inland sea, helping himself to God’s oceanic bounty. Do others envy him? They should. In the calm yet vast expanse of the sea, he finds his daily bread. He harvests without worry, as he knows that God’s mercy is infinite, and the stocks available to him will never deplete. He knows that God will provide his nourishment for all his days. I envy him.
Consider ten thousand South Thailanders. There is a house inhabited by a single family, built such that in each floor lives one generation, with the oldest at the bottom. The house consists of five floors, and with the passing of a patriarch or the birth of a son the arrangement shifts. The Prabathaya family has inhabited this house for as long as can be remembered, and has maintained a strict adherence to this practice throughout their history. That is until recently, when a small earthquake struck their village and caused their house to collapse. It collapsed in quite a peculiar manner, such that each floor fell directly into the one below it, at the end leaving intact a single story home. The local villagers were amazed when they came to realize that every generation of Prabathaya family had been collapsed into a single man, himself the essence of the family’s eternal character. This immortal man has lived in the house since this incident, and will likely inhabit it for eternity.
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