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Saints and Poets
The emperor had heard about his friends before he ever heard his poetry.
Somewhere around the year 606 a young Brahmin living in a village on the Shona river received a letter he had not asked for. It came from a man named Krishna, a cousin of the emperor.
And it said, in effect: you have been noticed at court, and you should come. What it did not say was that he had been noticed for the wrong reasons.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.