They cast whole regions of the world into upheaval, creating whirlpools of instability from which undreamed-of threats arose years later.

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As if to celebrate some unprecedented triumph in the agricultural sphere, of the sort that leads to an undreamed-of surplus, the survivors (and, one sometimes suspects, the sick and wounded) of the nation's turkey-camps are rounded up and executed for a second great annual immolation.

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