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Chapter One. The Material Background |
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'Ou-wang-ga-bu,' "the time of the first cock's crow," was reckoned as the beginning of the day. The villagers were still asleep: married couples with their small children in their own dwelling houses, older boys and unmarried men in their morung, adult girls in their dormitory, and lovers on the verandas of granaries, situated on the periphery of the village. At 'ou-wo-ga-bu,' "the time of the second cock's crow," lovers separated, the girls returning to their dormitories, and the boys to their morung. |
