Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse
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The machine couldn't take
what's too low.

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All these tomatoes,
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which are just as red
as my bible, the penal code,

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all can be gleaned.
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And it's not me,
it's the penal code that says so,

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in article R-26.1 0. Here:
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gleaning is allowed
from sunup until sundown.

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First requirement.
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The second requirement
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is that gleaning
occurs after the harvest.

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And here, we can clearly see
the harvest is over.

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Paging through
an old law commentary

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I happened upon a decree,
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or rather an edict,
dated Nov. 2, 1 5 54

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which says
just the same as the law today.

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It allows the poor, the wretched,
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the deprived, to enter the fields
once harvesting is over.

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Old documents talk
of the poor, the destitute,

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but how are we to consider
those who want for nothing

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and glean just for fun?
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It's as if they needed
something too.

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If they glean for fun, it's because
they have a need for fun.

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So if the requirements
and the times are adhered to,

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they can glean as the poor used to.
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Thank you.
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Sure.
I'll take a walk in the cabbages.

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I'll walk my small camera
among the colored cabbages

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and film other vegetables
which catch my eye.


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