Chapter 160 Chapter Eleven

why priests love kitchens Abisemon said: "It's really a priest's jargon. And it's a priest who leads, not a priest who is led. You remind me of what I saw and heard in Florence twenty years ago. When we were together They were all well-learned men, and all were lovers of travelling, of visiting sages, and of the sights and monuments of Italy. They gazed at the beauty and cityscape of Florence, the building of the Dome, the majesty of the temples, and the sumptuous courts, Everyone was vying for praise, when suddenly a priest from Amiens named Bernard Lardon came over and said to us angrily:

"I don't know what you see here that deserves such admiration. I've seen it everywhere like you, and my eyes are as good as yours. But, after all, what is it? Just some beautiful That’s all. That’s all. May God and my good patron saint, St. Bernard, not abandon us! In such a big city, I searched and looked around, and there is not even a barbecue restaurant. I have seen it. Let me tell you, like a detective, I counted the houses on the left and right sides, trying to see which side has more barbecue shops, but I found nothing. In Amiens, don’t talk about the ones we visited. Road, even if it is only a quarter, even if it is a third, I can show you more than fourteen old barbecue restaurants. I really don’t know how many lions, how many Africans I saw at the clock tower Beasts (as if you call them tigers) and the few porcupines and ostriches I saw in the palace of Grand Duke Philip Strozzi, what fun. To be honest, I would rather see a fork roasting on a spit Great fat goose just right! As for these cloud stones and white marble, I have no objection that they are beautiful; but the cream cakes in Amiens, I think, are much better than them. Said that these ancient statues are beautifully carved, I believe it too; but, speaking to Saint-Fireol of Abbeville, the maidens of our country are a thousand times more lovely!"

Brother John said, "Please tell me why the priest is happy to be in the kitchen, but the king, pope, and emperor are not there?" Risotomo interjected: "Is it because there is an inherent performance and invisible feature in the pot and the hob, like a magnet attracting iron, attracting priests instead of emperors, popes and kings? Or is it that priests There is a natural inclination and sympathy in the cassocks and cassocks to draw and push the good priests into the kitchen, whether they want to go or not?" Abesdemon replied: "Because the form follows the body. That is how Aphroes explained it."

"Not bad, not bad!" Brother John echoed. Paiguguay interjected: "I don't mean to answer the question just now, because this question is a bit tricky, and it will stab you as soon as you touch it. I mean, I remember reading that Antigonus, King of Macedon, ② One day, when he walked into the kitchen of the camp, he saw the poet Antagoras frying eels. The king hurried over to hold the pot for him, and asked joyfully, "When Homer described the heroic deeds of Agamemnon, Do you also eat fried eels?" Antagoras replied: "Ah! My king, do you think that A? The first edition is dated twelve years ago, and the author may refer to his first trip in Italy (1534).

② Amiens: the ancient provincial capital of Picasso. ③ On the first edition, there were "several Libyan bears" here, which were deleted by the author in the second edition. ④ There was indeed a zoo in the Strozzi Palace at that time. ① San Feoreol: the patron saint of geese. ② Antigonus: son of Demetrius, king of Macedonia in the third century BC.The story here can be found in the second section of the fourth chapter of the fourth volume of Plutarch's "Biographical Collection? Banquet". Did Gamemnon, when he was accomplishing his deeds of valor, think to see if anyone was frying eels in his barracks? 'In the eyes of the king, it is not proper for a poet to fry something in the kitchen.The poet made him understand that it would be even more treacherous for the king to enter the kitchen. "

"I have another wonderful story," said Panurge, "of Breton of Villandry and of the Duke de Guise. One day they spoke of King François In a battle against Charles V, in which Breton, although he was fully armored and clothed from head to toe, was not seen by anyone at the time of the battle. Breton said: 'Truly tell you , I am indeed on the battlefield, and it is not difficult to prove it to you, because even you dare not go to the place I am going!" The Duke thought that this sentence was arrogant and inappropriate, and couldn't help but look angry, but Bu Lietong laughed loudly, told him not to be angry, and said: "I got into the pile of luggage, how can you go to that place?""

As they talked, they returned to their own boat and sailed away from Heping Island. ① Claude Breton: François I's favorite and minister of state, died in 1542. ② Duke de Guiz: that is, Claude de Lorraine, the first Grand Duke of Guiz, who died in 1550.