{"id":"01KG8AKNPZGWGJY96ZNE422EYV","cid":"bafkreifx4bfdulu4nyxswexsduk5ulcbtqa4pkn5ra2ykibksweftk3wrq","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":3136,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:09.927Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 2","source_file":"01KG89J1954N2G0NAERBNJXEX9","start_line":3101,"text":"By this code, the minutest things in life were all ordered after a\r\nspecific fashion. More especially one’s dress was legislated upon, to\r\nthe last warp and woof. All girdles must be so many inches in length,\r\nand with such a number of tassels in front. For a violation of this\r\nordinance, before the face of all Mardi, the most dutiful of sons would\r\ncut the most affectionate of fathers.\r\n\r\nNow, though like all Mardi, kings and slaves included, the people of\r\nPimminee had dead dust for grandsires, they seldom reverted to that\r\nfact; for, like all founders of families, they had no family vaults.\r\nNor were they much encumbered by living connections; connections, some\r\nof them appeared to have none. Like poor Logan the last of his tribe,\r\nthey seemed to have monopolized the blood of their race, having never a\r\ncousin to own.\r\n\r\nWherefore it was, that many ignorant Mardians, who had not pushed their\r\ninvestigations into the science of physiology, sagely divined, that the\r\nTapparians must have podded into life like peas, instead of being\r\notherwise indebted for their existence. Certain it is, they had a\r\ncomical way of backing up their social pretensions. When the\r\nrespectability of his clan was mooted, Paivai, one of their bucks,\r\ndisdained all reference to the Dooms-day Book, and the ancients. More\r\nreliable evidence was had. He referred the anxious world to a witness,\r\nstill alive and hearty,—his contemporary tailor; the varlet who cut out\r\nhis tappa doublets, and rejoiced his soul with good fits.\r\n\r\n“Ah!” sighed Babbalanja, “how it quenches in one the thought of\r\nimmortality, to think that these Tapparians too, will hereafter claim\r\neach a niche!”\r\n\r\nBut we rove. Our visit to Pimminee itself, will best make known the\r\nways of its denizens.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 2"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJQT1H10JBDG2GRQS3M7Y","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1954N2G0NAERBNJXEX9","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKNPZNM6VB7ANSPRHWW94","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:11.999Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:21.366Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}