Further to the old story

In six weeks Kar had not eaten. Three Rezigs had returned from Tirl with the head of the enemy but no reward had arrived. Memory was not a shared commodity, and confusion reigned where anger anguish and resentment should have ruled. If Kar did not eat the community would die, and as death was an experience none alive had lived through their existence would and should have passed un-noticed.

A complication had arisen, a philosophical doubt amongst the energy gatherers and this in the most civilised of fashions superceded hunger as an overriding concern.