Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve-- if you like-- elders with cotton tuft hair say, when you visit you learn, willingly or unwillingly.
This festive season, this villager, the self-taught wordsmith, flew past boggy marshes, past picturesque mountains, past sliver-lined skies and indeed past the Indian Ocean, each time the horizon back-paddling, again and again and, again and again, until he landed in Guangzhou, China. Surely that land is yonder and beyond comprehension of many villagers.
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