Chapter 166 Chapter Seventeen

How Pagano came to the Isle of Chaos and the Isle of Empty, and how Strangely did Brangneri, who devoured the Windmill, die On the same day, Pagoda came to the Isle of Chaos and the Isle of Empty, where there was nothing to fry, for the giant Brangnari had no wind-mill to devour, and took all the pans, shallow Pots, cauldrons, pans, frying pans, and saucepans were all gone.So before dark, when he was digesting his food, because his appetite (as the doctors say) was born with a digestive power suited to a winged wind mill, and could not digest the cauldrons and small pots, he felt Stomach pain continued, and I fell to the ground in extreme pain.Judging from the sediment and foam of the four large buckets of urine he urinates twice in the morning, the frying pan and saucepan have indeed been digested.

The doctor prescribed the medicine according to the pharmacopoeia for treating the disease.But the medicine can't reduce the disease.The venerable Brangnarius died at last that morning, a death more peculiar than that of Aeschylus.As for Aeschylus, the soothsayer had predicted that he would one day be crushed to death by something falling from above, so from that day on he left the city, the houses, the trees, the rocks, and everything that might fall, When he came to the middle of a prairie, he believed that under this vast and empty sky, life would be guaranteed unless the sky fell, which was impossible in his mind.

However, it is said that the larks are afraid that the sky will fall, because when the sky falls, they will all be caught.The Celts, who lived not far from the Rhine in ancient times, were also afraid of the sky falling. These people were noble, heroic, forthright, aggressive, and victorious Frenchmen.Alexander the Great once asked them what they were most afraid of in the world. He thought he had done so many great heroic deeds, fought so many victories, conquered so many lands, and won so many victories. He would definitely say that he was afraid of him. Unexpectedly, they Answered that they feared nothing but the falling of the sky; and certainly they did not refuse to make an alliance of friendship with such a heroic and great king.This is mentioned in the seventh volume of Strabau's works, and in the first volume of Arrian's works.There is also Plutarch, who is said to have mentioned a man named Feynas in his "On the Faces of the Moon", saying that he was afraid that the moon would fall to the ground, so he told the people who lived under the moon —like the Ethiopians and the Taprobanians—with great pity and sympathy, as if the mass were about to fall on their heads.He feared both the sky and the earth, fortunately, as the ancients said—and Aristotle also said it in his fifth book—that the pillars of Atlas supported and supported them⑤ .

① The original texts of "Chaos" and "Empty" Thohu and Bohu are two Hebrew words, see "Old Testament? Yes: Et tevra erar solitudo (thohu) er inanitas (Bohu). ② "Blangnarii": means "broken nose" (explained by Seineon, Le Dusha et al.) and "big nostril" (explained by Cote Greve, Le Mott et al.) , here is the name of a giant, which appeared in "The Heroic Biography of Panuge and Brangnali, the Students of Panguai" published in 1538, and Ada Dürer had collected it in him in 1538. In the first and second volumes published in 1942, entitled "The Journey of Banuge", it was very popular, and it was reprinted nine times in a row between 1538 and 1548. How Langnarui met the windmill, and swallowed the miller and the dog together".

③ "There is nothing to fry" (rien pour frire) is a folk saying. The author intentionally means that the giant ate up the pot, so "there is nothing to fry"; another saying means "there is nothing to do". ④ The first edition reads "The Naked Immortals of India" (les gymnozophistes de Indie). ① Aryan: That is, the second century Greek historian Flavius ​​Arrianus. ② The name in Plutarch's works is Pharnaces, and the author is based on the name used by Erasmus in "The Collection of Proverbs": Phenace, also used by Aristotle. ③Taprobanian: The Greek name for the people of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).

④ It is said that it is the sixth volume. ⑤ In mythology, Mount Atlas is the shoulder of the giant Titan, punished by Jupiter to stand on the sky and the earth forever. Nevertheless, Aeschylus was caught in the claws of an eagle flying through the sky, and a tortoise fell on his head and smashed his head in two. And the poet Anacreon, who choked to death on a grape seed.The Roman consul Fabius was entangled to death by a wool while drinking goat's milk.Still the shy one, because he dared not fart and suffocate himself to death in front of the Roman Emperor Clotius.And the man buried on the Via Flaminia in Rome, who said on his tombstone that he died because a female cat bit his little finger.And Lecanius Bassus, who died on the thumb of his left hand by the point of a small needle, so that the wound was hardly visible.The Norman doctor Guenelou ⑥ died in Montpellier because he cut a piece of ringworm on his hand with a knife and cut it crooked ⑦.And Philemon, whose servant had prepared figs for him for dinner, but when the servant went out to fetch wine, a wild ass with large follicles ran into his house and ate up all the prepared figs. .Philemon watched curiously as the donkey finished eating the figs with ease and said to the servant who came in:

"Since the figs have been eaten up by this pious donkey, it is only natural that the fine wine you brought should be given to him." After he finished speaking, he was so happy that he couldn't hold it back, he laughed out loud for too long, his spleen got sick, he lost his breath from laughing, and died suddenly⑧.Besides, there was Sprius Sophius, who died after eating a half-cooked egg.Buccaccio also tells of a man who was killed by rubbing his teeth with sagebrush leaves. And Filippo Placu, always strong and tall, suddenly died because of old debts. He had never been sick in the past.There is also the painter Shuxis, who died laughing at the face of an old woman he painted.Innumerable examples can also be said, in the works of Varius, Plinius, Valerius, Battista Phorgus, ⑤, Barcabelli⑥ and others.

And that good old Brangnerie (what a pity to say!), choked to death on a piece of freshly made butter at the stove-door, on the doctor's orders. Furthermore, we hear that the king of Courant on the Isle of Empty defeated the governor of King Mekrot ⑧, and captured the stronghold of Belima⑨. ① Anacreon (before 560-before 478): ancient Greek lyric poet. ② For the story, see Chapter VII of Volume VII of Plinius’s Compendium of Natural History. ③ See Chapter 22 of "The Biography of Clotius" by Suetonius, but it only mentions death from illness, not suffocation. ④ Many travelers said that this tombstone is now in the Augustinian Church near Rome, and the author may have seen it.

⑤ See the first chapter of the twenty-sixth volume of Plinius's "Compendium of Natural History". ⑥ "Gai Nai Lou" means "squinted eye".Also here on the first edition is "The Famous Card Player Who Loved Dried Beans." ⑦ On the first edition, there is still "because of outstanding debts". ⑧ See Lucian's "On Longevity" and the twelfth chapter of the ninth volume of the works of Roman historian Valelius Maximus. ⑨ See Chapter 33 of Volume VII of Plinius' "Compendium of Natural History", but the name of the deceased is Abius Sophius.

① Boccaccio (1313-375): Italian Renaissance writer, with representative works. ② For the story, see the seventh story of Bujiaqiu on the fourth day. ③ Thuxess (464-398 BC): A famous painter in ancient Greece. ④ See Chapter 5 of Volume III of Erasmus' Proverbs. ⑤ Batista Forgusus: Genoese writer in the early sixteenth century. ⑥ Dabaca Baili: The author's fictional name.There are two places on the Oise River called Baku Bailey; in ancient times, some authors used their hometown as their name. ⑦ Courant: Note the name of the village near Saint-Amand Montron in the province of Cher.

⑧ "Mechloth" in the original text comes from the Hebrew word Makloth, which means "disease, destruction". ⑨ The original text of "Belima" comes from the Hebrew word Balimah, which means "emptiness". Later we visited the islands of Narg and Sarg, and the islands of Tereniabin and Gueneliabin, which are beautiful and rich in enema herbs.In addition, I have been to the islands of Einig and Evig, for which the lord of Hess suffered a blow. ⑩ Both Narg Island and Sarg Island are fictional names of the author. ① "Tereniyabin" and "Geneliabin" are two names of medicines in Arabic, one is "mana" and the other is "rose honey". ② "Enig" (Enig) and "Evig" (Evig) come from the German words einige (incidental) and ewige (permanent), which refer to the treaty between Charles V and the German lord of Hess. The article "without any detention" (ohne einige gef ngniss) was changed to "without permanent detention" (ohne ewige gef ngniss), a word difference, so Charles V had to be released or detained. ③ Hess: the southwestern region of Germany. ④ Refers to digging and modifying with a knife in the contract.