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To: Lazarus who wrote (153398)	2/20/2020 2:02:50 PM
From: Lazarus	2 Recommendations Recommended By abuelita elmatador Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217623

On the topic of THE RELATIVE VALUE OF THINGS: In the book The Life a Pi this sentence shall forever remain with me: *Hunger will change everything you thought you knew about yourself* The Old Testament - 2 Kings 6:25 reads: And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.Unfortunately I can't make a contemporary translation of the metrics of that exchange, but I suspect the price was quite high, given that just a few verses later there's a story of two mothers boiling one of their babies (to eat).