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Waiting for Moonlight - bixby

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"The palm tree has much more wisdom then the Papalagi."

The Papalagi
by Erich Scheurmann

.The Papelagi loves the round metal and the heavy paper (Tuiavii's description of money), he loves to fill his stomach with a lot of liquids from dead fruits and with meat from pigs, cows and other horrible animals, but above all, he loves what isn't tangible and that is time. He makes a lot of fuzz and foolish talk about it. Although never more is available than between sunrise and sunset, it is never enough to him. The Papelagi is ever dissatisfied with his time and accuses the great Spirit that it hasn't given more. Yes, he is defaming God and his great wisdom, by dividing a day in certain parts. He cuts it as if one would go with a machete through a soft coconut. All parts have names: second, minute, hour and one has to have sixty minutes or many more seconds to fill an hour. That is a complicated issue I never understood, because I get sick, reflecting on those childish matters. But the Papelagi makes a big knowing out of it.
Men, women and even children who can hardly go on their feet, are carrying in their loincloths small, flat, round machine, attached to a thick metal chain, from which they can read the time. This reading however, isn't easy. It is practiced with the children, by holding the machine to their ears, in order to get them into liking it. Such a machine, easily carried on two fingers, looks in their stomach like the machine in the stomach of large boats you all know. But there are also large and heavy time machines, they are standing in the huts or are hanging at the highest gable, so that they can be seen from afar (...)

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Found a translation here - don't know about the rest of the site

http://www.nonduality.com/papalagi.htm