On the occasion of anger, to enlarge a canvas wall knocked down and bought three acres of adjacent land, but this new part goes almost uninhabited, and the tombs remain as before, piled at the door. The Guardian, which is at the same time gravedigger and sexton of the church (so that out of the parish cdáveres double benefit), has used that vacant lot to plant potatoes. Yet year after year their meager potato tapers, so that when an epidemic does not know whether to rejoice or grieve the deaths of new graves.
- You eat from the dead, Lestiboudois! - Finally the priest said to him on one occasion.
This phrase made him ponder bleak, it was still a time, but even today, continues growing its tubers and even argues with aplomb that develop spontaneously.
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
