The "lowlands" of Myanmar seen thru pynchon's lenses (or lunes?)

[Mark Kohut]

Lacking alternatives, villagers are eating waterlogged bananas and other rotting fruit, he said.
   
  The rice has a musty smell, but farmers say they have no choice but to eat it.
  "It tastes bad, but if we can eat it we will," said Than Tun, 43, a rice farmer. "If not, we will throw it to the pigs."

       
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