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Also, a note on one of the words in this chapter: I was trying to figure out the word to describe the liquor that Haver makes from grain, fruit, and anything else he can find, but I couldn't figure out what it was called, so I borrowed a word, barma, from the novel 'The Shelters of Stone' by Jean Auel, in which one of the characters makes a potent alcoholic beverage using grain, fruit, and whatever else he can find.

"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”

- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland