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How the Panu Days Praise the Debtor and the Borrower Paiguguay asked, "When will you be debt free?" Panurge replied: "When the Greeks have their almanacs, when all mankind is satisfied, and when you can inherit yourself, I will be free from debts, God bless me, because then I will have no one to borrow. Give me a penny. Whoever doesn't leave the yeast the night before won't be able to rise the next morning. Do you owe someone a debt? The creditor will not stop praying to God to bless you with good health, long life, and a happy life , because he is afraid of losing his creditor's rights; he will also speak good words for you on various occasions, so that you can get new creditors, so that you can borrow money from these people to pay him back. Fill your own ditches. In Gaul, the Druids once enacted a law requiring serfs, servants, and slaves to be burned when their masters and masters died and were buried. Didn’t these people fear the death of their masters and masters? Because they have to die together. Don't they pray to the great gods Marguri and Lord Dis, the god of wealth, to bless these masters with a long life? Don't they sincerely serve and flatter these people so that they can Do you live with these people until you die? Don’t worry, creditors will do their best to pray to God to let you live, because they are afraid of your death. What they care about is not an arm but a sleeve, not life but money. Those moneylenders in Landerouse are an example, and when they see the price of grain and wine fall at the end of the year, they hang themselves with anxiety."

Pagnus said nothing, and Panurge went on: "My God! Don't let me forget that when you blamed me for being in debt, you almost made me speechless. God!I tell you, it is in being a debtor that I feel sublime, honorable, and great.I disagree with all the philosophers (who hold that nothingness can only produce nothingness), that from nothing I have made myself a maker and originator. "What was created? Well-intentioned creditors were created. Creditors (set me on fire, that's how I say it too) are charitable and well-meaning people. Those who don't lend a single money are ugly bad people. , the offspring of the great devil in hell.

"As for what I have done? I have some debts. Debts are the most precious and immortal things! Its advantages are better than those conceived and calculated by the venerable Xenocrates, and consonant combinations. The number of pronunciations is even greater①. As for the creditor's clever calculation, if you think that this is also due to the good things the debtor has done, then it is considered that you are not wrong in arithmetic. "Would you believe how comfortable I am every morning when I see so many modest, kind, respectful creditors around me? When I find myself looking a little brighter toward one than another, When I was a little nicer, that villain would think that I would be the first to satisfy him, the first to pay him back, and even treat my smile as cash. I thought I was accompanied by angels and gods in Saumur. What about the Crucifixion? I was surrounded by people who flattered me, lived on me, flattered me, greeted me, and supported me forever. I really thought that the heroic character Hesiod described The mountain ① is made of debt, and I have stepped up to the first level, it is all ① ie: never.

② See Chapter 19 of Volume VI of Caesar's "Battle of Gaul". ③ Diss: An alias for Pluton. ④ The author's fictitious name, which may also refer to Landenus of Carrek, France. ① Xenocrates (406-314 BC): An ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, who once calculated the pronunciation of the Greek letters, a total of 100.2 million.See Plutarch's Banquet, Book VIII, Chapter IX. ② In August 1534, the life of Jesus was performed in Saumur, including birth, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. ① See lines 289 and 289 of Hesiod's "Farming and Days".

What mankind looks up to and yearns for (but due to the arduous road, few people can reach it), don’t you see that all people today are eager to borrow money and do everything possible to find new creditors? "However, it is not that whoever wants to be a debtor can be a debtor, nor can anyone who wants to be a creditor be able to have it. You ask me when I will be debt-free, are you trying to deprive me of this wonderful enjoyment? "To put it more harshly, if I hadn't been convinced all my life that debt is the connection and connection between heaven and earth, the only and indispensable thing that sustains human beings--without which I think human beings must perish--even the noble soul of the universe , that is to say, that which the scholars of the Academy hold all things to live on, let good Saint Barbaulan take my soul.

"If so, imagine in your cool head what a world would look like without debtors and without creditors—take, if you like, one-thirtieth, Or one seventy-eighth of Berthronius' would do--what would a world be without debt. The debtor of God, will throw him from the earth, and bind all gods, fairies, elves, goblins, ghosts, heroes, demons, lands, seas, and all elements with Homer's chains Saturn and Mars will unite to tear the world to pieces. Malguri will think himself no longer subject to any government, no longer as their Aetolian name Camilius, because what he thinks No one owes anyone. Venus is no longer respected, because she can borrow nothing. The moon will be a bloody blackness; why should the sun give it light? It doesn't matter. The sun no longer illuminates the earth, and the stars no longer emit their useful senses, for the earth no longer supplies nourishing gases and vapors, Heraclitus said, the Stoics proved, and Cicero insisted that the stars depend on these gases Come to live ③. Between the elements, there is no longer any blending, communication, and change; because no one has any relationship with the other, and no one relies on others. Water will no longer flow from the ground, and water will no longer turn into gas , the gas does not reproduce the fire, and the fire no longer gives heat to the earth.

At that time, only goblins, titans, Eloyds, and giants were born on the earth; there was no rain, no light, no wind, and no seasons of the year.Lucifer will be freed from the depths of hell, and together with mad gods, demons and horned devils, they will knock down all the gods of the big and small countries in the sky⑤. "This world of non-borrowing is as chaotic as a pack of wild dogs, more severe than the competition for the election of the dean of the Paris Theological Seminary⑥, and more barbaric than the disorder of Douai's acting⑦. People do not help each other , shout as you please: "Save people! Put out the fire! You've drowned! You've killed someone!" No one came to rescue him. Why? Because there was no loan relationship, he didn't owe him anything. He burned to death, drowned, Bankruptcy, death, nobody's business. He never lent and never will.

"To put it simply, the three virtues of faith, hope, and love no longer exist in the world. You must know that human beings are born to help others. What follows will be suspicion, jealousy, and hatred, with all the shortcomings, Curses and disasters See lines 34 to 37 of Plato's Timeus. ③ Refers to St. Benedict, the author was originally a monk of St. Benedictine. ④ Metroodorus: A philosopher in the third century BC, a student of Epicurus, who believed that there are countless worlds in the universe. ⑤ Bertronius: A Pythagorean philosopher in the sixth century BC. He believed that there were 186 worlds in the universe.The inner one hundred and eighty-three form the lower part of the triangle, and three form the apex of the triangle.

⑥ Saturn is the main god of Jupiter's predecessor. ① See the nineteenth line of the eighth volume, and the eighteenth line of the fifteenth volume. ② It means "servant, messenger boy", see Chapter 7 of Plutarch's "Biography of Numa". ③ See Section 2, Chapter 17, Volume II of Plutarch's Philosophical Ideas. ④ Heloyd: the son of the giant Heloise. ⑤ Some of Lucifer's devils are in the Catholic hell, and some are in the foreign religion's hell, see Mystery Play. ⑥ When electing the dean of the Paris seminary, there is always fierce competition.

⑦ Duai: The name of the town of Saumur, where there is an amphitheater, and there are always struggles when performing plays. Harmful.You are right to think of this place as the place where Pandora dumped her urn.In the world, there are wolves, werewolves, and mandrills, just like Lycaon, Bellerophon, and Nebuchadnezzar; they are robbers, murderers, poisoners, bad deeds, and bad thoughts. , evil-hearted people, everyone hates everyone, like Ishmael⑤, Metabus⑥, and Timon the Athenian⑦, who is also called a cynic for this reason.It's also easier to raise fish in mid-air and graze deer on the bottom of the sea than to put up with the world's rogues who don't want to borrow money.To be honest, I hate these people to death!

"If it's like this exasperating, distressing, non-borrowing world, you can imagine what a terrible mess the other little world - man himself - would be. The head won't lend the eyes To lead the action of hands and feet. Legs will not let the head grow on them. Hands will not work. Heart will not beat for the veins of the limbs, will not give more effort. The lungs will no longer lend their respiratory organs. The liver will no longer Blood transfusions maintain it. The bladder is no longer willing to be a debtor to the kidneys and refuses to urinate. The brain sees everything abnormal and begins to be confused. The nerves no longer feel, and the muscles no longer move. In short, in this scattered world, no one Oweing nothing to no one, no part will lend a little strength, and no part will borrow a little strength, and you will see a scene more dangerous than the destruction imagined by Aesop in his fable. Needless to say, this The world will die; not only will it die, but it will die so quickly that it is useless to be Aesculabius. The body will rot quickly; the soul will rage and run after me Money is flying around." ① All that is poured out is sin. ② Lycaon: King of Arcadia, Jupiter turned him into a wolf because he violated the law of receiving people.See Chapter 1 of Ovid. ③ Bellerophon: The son of Glaucus, King of Corinth, because he wanted to fly over Mount Olympus on Pegasus, he was hated by the gods and thrown into limbo. ④ Nebuchadnezzar: King of Judea, later turned into a bull.See "Old Testament? Daniel Book" Chapter 4, Section 33. ⑤ Ishmael was like a wild donkey, and his hand would strike a man, and his hand would strike him.See "Old Testament? Genesis" Chapter XVI Section twelfth. ⑥ Maitabus: King Privilum, who was later expelled.See lines 539 and 540 of Volume 11 of Virgil's "Init". ⑦ Timon the Athenian: An ancient Greek philosopher in the fifth century BC, described by Lucian and Plutarch as a cynic. ① See Limbs and Stomach. ② Aesculabius: the god of medicine, the son of Apollo.