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...left the Tennessee hills for the Delta, "the richest farming land since the discovery of the Nile Valley" was selling at 90? an acre. Town put every cent he had into 600 acres. Then he cleared the tremendous cane that towered 20 feet above him and walked the cotton seed into the reeking-rich earth. The next spring two Negroes, a man and a woman, shared his cabin, his labor, his prospects. They cleared and planted twice the past year's acreage. Settling up in the fall, Otis skinned the Negro so unmercifully that he drew a knife. Otis...
...SEED BENEATH THE SNOW-Ignazio Silone-Harper...
...that were all, The Seed Beneath the Snow would be an ordinary piece of democratic propaganda. But it has indestructible meaning and grandeur, because Silone dramatizes, chiefly within one village, the conflict of two irreconcilable worlds. One is the world of Caesar: petty officials, petty sycophants, sentimental housewives, craven husbands, tame-cat priests, small landowners who "would boil the Sacred Ribs of Jesus in the tears of Our Lady of Sorrows if they could make a broth of them"-in short, the dull, timid, heartless, ambitious mass of whom, in Silone's opinion, life is chiefly made. The other...
...that fear gave him an appetite for living which made any wealth beyond that of bare life ridiculous. It also gave him a complete distrust of theory and oratory. "Must I force myself to shout and sing," he asked, "if I have only voice enough for ordinary conversation? A seed of wheat beneath the snow is a poor thing; we might tax it with not having the value of a bomb or a pearl...
...adding more grain to the glut. The year's crop was expected to hit 900,000,000 bushels. Grain men figured that this, plus the 630,000,000 bushels carried over from last year, would be enough to supply the whole U.S. for two years, without putting another seed in the ground...