IF you want to experience being a demigod, just go to Agats. There, no one's feet ever touch the soft ground. Planks spanning almost 2 meters, closely laid out in rows, form the elevated pathways on which you travel throughout the district. They crackle and creak loudly whenever anyone passes by.

The planks are none too wide, as well as often rotten, with many sizable holes that combine to make it easy for people to fall through onto the mud. "When