Episode 22

Kelvin was told how, with a child's innocence, kids would lick their dripping noses with their tongues, and eat with both hands unwashed, their naked bellies gleaming in the morning sun, and saliva marks running down their cheeks; how girls would forage the assorted junks inside the village refuse dump, looking for broken bottles and old tin cans, the red clay smearing their bodies; how little children would cry to make requests, suck the tips of their forefingers to check the rugged anger of hunger; and how mothers would shave their boys' heads clean with razor blades to prevent skin lice. During cold nights, children of the village...