Pierre Auguste Renoir Seating Girl painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir Seating Girl paintingPierre Auguste Renoir By the Water paintingThomas Kinkade The old fishing hole painting
to the Nna Mmoy, who regard them without awe or interest.
Which is how they also regard visitors.
No one understands the language well enough to know if the Nna Mmoy have any history or legends of the ancestors responsible for the vast works and destructions that litter their placid landscape.
My friend Laure says that he heard the Nna Mmoy use a word in connection with the ruins: nen. As well as he could figure out, the syllable nen, variously modified by the syllables that surround it, may signify a range of objects from a flash flood to a tiny iridescent beetle. He thought the central area of connotation of nen might be "things that move fast" or "events occurring quickly." It seems an odd name to give the timeless, grass-grown ruins that loom above the villages or serve as their foundations—the cracked and sunken tracts of pavement that are now the silted bottoms of shallow lakes—the immense chemical deserts where nothing grows