Chapter 127 Chapter Thirty-One

How the Physician Longdibilis Instructed Banuj Banouche continued: "The first words of the man who castrates the yellow-faced priest of Sosinac after he cut off the cold Cordorai was: 'It's someone else's time!' I said the same thing: 'It's someone else's time!' Now it's ours Master Longdi Bliss, please tell me quickly, should we get married?" Longdibilis replied: "I tell the truth by the slow walk of my mule! This question is really difficult for me to answer. You say you are troubled by sexual desire. We can see ancient Plato in medicine. According to the teaching of the school of thought, there are five ways to restrain the sexual desire, the first is alcohol."

Friar John interjected, "I believe it, because when I'm drunk I just want to sleep." Dr. Rondibilis said: "What I'm talking about is drinking more. Because drinking too much alcohol can cool the blood in a person, relax the muscles, relax the vitality, dull the faculties, and slow down the movements. All these are enough to prevent the sexual desire. If you don’t believe me, look at the portrait of Bagus, the main god of drinkers, with a bare mouth, wearing women’s clothes, completely feminine, and really looks like a eunuch and eunuch. As for drinking properly, that’s another matter of course. Ancient legends said that Venus would be cold without the company of Cyrus and Bagus. Therefore, according to the records of Sicilian Diodorus ④ and the records of the Lampsasians ⑤, Pausania It has also been proved that the ancients believed that Master Priapus was the illegitimate son of Bagus and Venus.

"The second is to take certain medicinal herbs, which can cause impotence, weakness, and infertility. Commonly used ones include nymphoea heraclia①, willow branches, willow leaves, hemp seeds, honeysuckle, tamarisk, vitex, datura flowers, and medicinal herbs. Celery, small Zelan, hippopotamus skin, etc., these things will exert their own unique effects when taken into the human body, freezing and subduing the germ plasm of reproduction, dispelling the thoughts of going to that place due to the natural physiological relationship, Otherwise, it will block all avenues that can be vented. On the contrary, some things can stimulate, excite and impulsive people."

Banurge said: "Thank God, I don't need these; do you need them, master? Please forgive my presumptuousness. I don't want to hurt you." Longdibilis went on to say: "The third is to persist in labor, because labor can consume a lot of physical strength, and the blood needs to be transported to all parts of the body, so there is no time and effort, and there is no possibility of producing semen to supply the third consumption. ③. So nature will play a reserved role, because it needs to take care of the person itself, and cannot take care of the reproduction of offspring. Diana, known as the god of chastity, is because she is dedicated to hunting all the time. In ancient times the barracks were also called the camps of innocence, because the strong men and warriors there had no time for other things. Hippocrates, in lib, De aere, aqua et locis, mentions a people in Sitia, saying They are more incompetent than eunuchs in the relationship between men and women, because they ride on horses all year round and work non-stop. But on the contrary, philosophers say, ① Sosinyak is a fictional place name of the author, and the traveler David once It is recorded that at the Cluny Abbey, because the priests were dissolute and irregular, the dean Philip Bourgoff called them to a certain place in the courtyard to castrate them one by one.

② "Kodolai" means "hot ear", because there is "cold" in the front, so there is a hot thing behind it intentionally. ③ It is said that Dr. Londry was very obese, and if he rode his mule at a gallop, he was in danger of breaking his neck, so the author told his mule to walk slowly. ④ Diodorus: a first-century Greek historian. ⑤ Lampsacia: Lycian place name. ① Latin: "Water Lily". ② See Chapter 50 of Volume 32 of Plinius's "Compendium of Natural History". ③ Aristotle said: The third consumption of food is the special production of semen in the tissues of the human body.

Idleness is the mother of lust.Someone asked Ovid what was the reason for Aegistus' promiscuity, and Ovid said that there was no other reason than leisure.Whoever removes leisure from the world will soon lose all the skills of Guppido; his bow, quiver, and arrows will no longer hit anyone, and will only be a burden to him. .Because no matter how good an archer is, it is difficult to shoot the cranes flying in the sky, and the elk running in the forest (like the Baltians in ancient times), I mean the human beings in labor.The target needs to be motionless, sitting there, lying there, doing nothing.Theophrastus was asked in the past what kind of activity or thing to be in love, and he replied that it was idle lust.Diogenes also said that fornication is a kind of work for people who have nothing to do.The sculptor Canajus of Xijuan ③ reversed the style of sculptors in the past, and made Venus not a standing statue, but a sitting statue, just to express idleness, laziness, and inactivity, which are the main causes of lewdness. reason.

"Fourth, work hard with enthusiasm. Because the brain is very tense when working hard, and there is no time to produce reproductive secretions, so it is impossible to overflow the organs responsible for the reproduction of human beings. Try to see how a person works when he concentrates on hard work, and you will Seeing that every artery in his brain is as tense as a bowstring, he quickly supplies enough energy to the departments responsible for thinking, imagination, comprehension, reasoning, decision-making, memory, recollection, etc. The blood vessels of the human body are sent from one department to another, and finally converge in the magical network of arteries. The arteries originate from the left atrium, and through complex changes, they transform reproductive energy into animal energy. Therefore, a person who concentrates on hard work A man, you will see that all his natural faculties have ceased to function, all his external faculties are at rest, and you only see him as a living thing, but apart from him, everything is empty. Socrates often said that philosophy is nothing else , it is a meditation on death, this sentence, you will feel that it is not a lie. Democritus blinded himself, and would rather lose his sight than affect his spiritual observation. Observation is a hindrance, perhaps that is why. Pallas, the god of science and patron of the man of governance, is a virgin; the muses are also virgins; and the god of love is always chaste. I remember reading Guppido’s story ④, once his mother Venus asked him why he didn’t pursue the muses, he replied that they are so beautiful, pure, noble, chaste, and they are always busy, observing the stars, calculating numbers, Some painted geometric patterns, some practiced rhetorical skills, some were busy reciting poems, and some were busy composing music. As soon as he approached them, he was ashamed—and at the same time afraid of hurting them—releasing the bowstring, Close the quiver, blow out the torches. Then take off the blindfold, and look at them well, and enjoy their beautiful songs and rhymes. Then he will feel the greatest joy in the world, often in their beauty. I felt very happy in the gentle and gentle posture, and fell asleep peacefully in a harmonious atmosphere. There was no intention of attacking them or disrupting their work.

"At this point, I now understand that Hippocrates, writing about the Scythians in his On Propagation, said that when a man's subauricular glands (next to the ears) are cut off, the Lost the ability to reproduce, the reason, I have already explained when I mentioned the secretion of energy and the storage of blood in the arteries. Hippocrates also believed that most semen descended from the brain along the spine. "Fifth, use sexual behavior to solve it." Banuzhi said: "I am waiting for you here. I want this method. Other methods, whoever wants to use it, can use it."

① Aegistus: The son of Tiestus, who seduced and raped Agamemnon's wife, Cretymnestra, and then killed Agamemnon. ② Guppido: The god of love in Roman mythology, with two wings, holding a bow and arrow, and naked. ③ Xijuan: The name of an ancient Greek city. ① See line 64 of Plato's Phaeton. ② See Section 531 of Plutarch's "On Curiosity". ③ Minerva. ④ See Chapter 19 of Lucian's Aphrodite and Cupid. "That's what Father Cyrino, the abbot of St. Victor in Marseilles, called the mortal sensuality," said Brother John. "I fully support it (as did the hermit from St. La de Comte at Schnon), Diba. The hermits of Ide had to fuck him twenty-five to thirty times a day, unable to suppress the urges of the flesh, to subdue the feelings of adultery, to overcome the presumptuous movements of the flesh."

Longdibilis said: "I think Banuzhi has well-proportioned limbs, gentle temperament, strong spirit, and a suitable age. Now is the season for marriage, and he is willing to marry. If he meets a wife with the same nature, they will definitely be married." Will produce sons worthy of being kings abroad. If he wishes to have sons and daughters, the sooner he marries, the better." Panuge said: "Master, I will definitely get married. Don't worry, I will get married soon. Hearing your incisive comments, the lice on my ear make me sad. I have never itched like this. I invite you now Come to my wedding. I promise, let's have a good meal. Please bring your wife, and her girlfriend, too. Let's have a good time!"

① St. Radekonde: A cave in Shi Nong. According to legend, a hermit lived in ancient times, known as St. John of Shi Nong. He was visited by Queen St. Radegonde, hence the name.