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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510770" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Giffen's Debt</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Imprimis he was &quot;broke.&quot; Thereafter left<br>His Regiment and, later, took to drink;<br>Then, having lost the balance of his friends,<br>&quot;Went Fantee&quot; -- joined the people of the land,<br>Turned three parts Mussulman and one Hindu,<br>And lived among the Gauri villagers,<br>Who gave him shelter and a wife or twain.<br>And boasted that a thorough, full-blood sahib<br>Had come among them. Thus he spent his time,<br>Deeply indebted to the village shroff<br>(Who never asked for payment), always drunk,<br>Unclean, abominable, out-at-heels;<br>Forgetting that he was an Englishman.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You know they dammed the Gauri with a dam,<br>And all the good contractors scamped their work<br>And all the bad material at hand<br>Was used to dam the Gauri -- which was cheap,<br>And, therefore, proper. Then the Gauri burst,<br>And several hundred thousand cubic tons<br>Of water dropped into the valley, flop,<br>And drowned some five-and-twenty villagers,<br>And did a lakh or two of detriment<br>To crops and cattle. When the flood went down<br>We found him dead, beneath an old dead horse,<br>Full six miles down the valley. So we said<br>He was a victim to the Demon Drink,<br>And moralised upon him for a week,<br>And then forgot him. Which was natural.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, in the valley of the Gauri, men<br>Beneath the shadow of the big new dam,<br>Relate a foolish legend of the flood,<br>Accounting for the little loss of life<br>(Only those five-and-twenty villagers)<br>In this wise: -- On the evening of the flood,<br>They heard the groaning of the rotten dam,<br>And voices of the Mountain Devils. Then<br>And incarnation of the local God,<br>Mounted upon a monster-neighing horse,<br>And flourishing a flail-like whip, came down,<br>Breathing ambrosia, to the villages,<br>And fell upon the simple villagers<br>With yells beyond the power of mortal throat,<br>And blows beyond the power of mortal hand,<br>And smote them with his flail-like whip, and drove<br>Them clamorous with terror up the hill,<br>And scattered, with the monster-neighing steed,<br>Their crazy cottages about their ears,<br>And generally cleared those villages.<br>Then came the water, and the local God,<br>Breathing ambrosia, flourishing his whip,<br>And mounted on his monster-neighing steed,<br>Went down the valley with the flying trees<br>And residue of homesteads, while they watched<br>Safe on the mountain-side these wondrous things,<br>And knew that they were much beloved of Heaven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wherefore, and when the dam was newly built,<br>They raised a temple to the local God,<br>And burnt all manner of unsavoury things<br>Upon his altar, and created priests,<br>And blew into a conch and banged a bell,<br>And told the story of the Gauri flood<br>With circumstance and much embroidery. . . .<br>So hi, the whiskified Objectionable,<br>Unclean, abominable, out-at-heels,<br>Became the tutelary Deity<br>Of all the Gauri valley villages,<br>And may in time become a Solar Myth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q>
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His Regiment and, later, took to drink;
Then, having lost the balance of his friends,
&quot;Went Fantee&quot; -- joined the people of the land,
Turned three parts Mussulman and one Hindu,
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