61 Capar! Said as a boy would say while sinking the shot, with the accent pushed on the second syllable, where the vowel can last also for one second. Violence has accompanied pulque since its first day, of life and history. Capar, e.g. to castrate. This kind of fermentation begins with the cutting of the nascent flower of an agave plant, an act with no way back. Once cut, the plant will die. Agave flowering is a sapling that varies from 2 to 11 meters in height and is the result of a huge energy effort. With a trick, man has been deceiving the plant for millennia, castrating the flower, convincing it that it is still there and preying on the litres of lymph that agave pours out, believing to nourish its inflorescence; while instead It is feeding and distracting anyone who needs it. And that’s a lot.
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