Now Norris Deonarine is gone and the earth has lost some salt. In those hours after he saw his life in the sharpened edge of a three canal gone mad, my friend and one-time neighbour would have worked out that more money had been spent during his interrupted life on studying problems in agriculture than actually solving them.
Much of that money would have been divvied up by regional and non- regional academics, technocrats rammed down national throats by funding agencies and former bureaucrats trading their colonial-era desks for frequent flyer miles, in the name of consultancy. In only rare cases would a farmer be distracted from battling anything between felon and fungus to be asked, like Mary was, "how does your garden grow?"
Much of that money would have been divvied up by regional and non- regional academics, technocrats rammed down national throats by funding agencies and former bureaucrats trading their colonial-era desks for frequent flyer miles, in the name of consultancy. In only rare cases would a farmer be distracted from battling anything between felon and fungus to be asked, like Mary was, "how does your garden grow?"
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