Chapter 171 Chapter Twenty Two

end of the storm "Land, land!" cried Paiguguet suddenly, "I see land! Boys, have the courage of sheep! We must not be far from the shore. I see the sky begin to light up in the north. Go southeast." Take a look." Said the pilot, "Come on, boys, the water's out. Hoist the fore-sail first! Come on, spread the sail! Then hoist the mizzen-sail! Wind up the capstan! Turn, turn, turn! Hold the helm !Sail, sail, sail! Tiller! Tighten the line! Tighten the horns! Tighten! Hang the canopy! Pull to port! Steer the wind!Starboard tight, son of a bitch! " Brother John said to a sailor beside him, "My friend, you must be very happy to hear about your mother again, right?"

"Come where the wind blows! Spread the sails! Steer the wind!" "It's all done," answered the sailors in unison. "Keep on! Bow forward! Ready the little sails, here! Hang up the little sails! Spread the sails, spread the sails!" Brother John said, "Yes, yes, that's the way to go. Come on, come on, come on, boys, quick! Good! Spread the sails, spread the sails!" "Come to starboard!" "Yes, yes, that's what it is. I feel the wind has died down, and it's probably over. Praise be to God. All the devils go." "slow!"

"Yes, yes, that makes sense. Slow down, slow down! For God's sake, come here, my Bonokrates, energetic fellow! All he makes are boys. Osten, handsome lad , come to the bow!" "Zhang Fan, Zhang Fan!" "Yes, Zhang Fan! By God, Zhang Fan, Zhang Fan!" "I'm not afraid anymore because it's time to celebrate, celebrate, celebrate, celebrate!" Ebisdemon said: "It's right to cheer everyone up, really, it's time to celebrate." "Zhang Fan, Zhang Fan, come on!" "There!" continued Abesdemon, "don't be discouraged, everyone. I see Castor from the starboard side."

"G, g, g, g!" Panurge was still trembling, "I'm afraid what you saw was that dishonest Helen ②." Ebisdemon said: "It's really Miksarkavas, if you prefer the Argive name. O, o! I see the land, I see the port, and there are many Man! I also saw a light on a pointed lighthouse." The pilot commanded: "Hey, hey! Go around this bay and beach!" "Yes," replied the sailors in unison. The pilot said: "Our boat is going well, and the other boats are also doing well. God bless." ① Refers to the bright head of the mast. ② Refers to bad omen.

③ Mixar Kavas: The name of Castor by the Argives. "Saint John!" exclaimed Panurge suddenly, "this is wonderful. Your words are very good!" said Friar John, "I can't let you mess around here even if the devil takes me! Do you hear me, you wretch? Here, my friend, here's a nice bowl of wine for you. Say, Jim Nast, get the big bowl, and the boiled or steamed ham, or whatever you want to call it. Be careful not to mess it up." "That's good, my boys, that's good!" said Paiguguet. "Be ready, everybody. There are two galleys, three sloops, five schooners, eight three-masted schooners. The sailboat, four yachts, and six patrol boats are coming to our ship, and the good people of this island have come to our rescue. But what is that yelling Ucalegon doing? Is not the mast in my hand stronger and straighter than two hundred cables?"

Brother John replied: "It's that poor fellow Panurge, who is suffering from a fever. His stomach is full, and he is shaking with fear." Paiguguai said: "If he was afraid because he was frightened in the storm, then he did his best, and I don't despise him. Because it is cowardly to be afraid at any time (Agamemnon is like that. , so Achilles viciously called him a dog with eyes and a deer heart ③), as for being afraid when it is clearly terrible, it just means that you don’t understand things enough or too little. Therefore, the terrible things in the world, apart from offending the true God , I do not admit that it is death. I do not want to get involved in the debate between Socrates and the academics,4 because death itself is not bad, nor is it a terrible thing. But I think shipwrecks at sea are terrible, otherwise there is no fear death at sea is a terrible, terrible, and unnatural thing, as Homer famously said①. And Aenis, when his ship was caught in a storm near Sicily, expressed that he would rather Died at the hands of the mighty enemy Diomedes, who said that death in the fire of Troy was a hundred times better than death in the water. None of us die here; blessed be our Lord and Savior forever! But we What a mess your boat is. It doesn't matter, we'll fix it up. Be careful you don't touch the boat!"

① This is said to the pilot. ② Ucalegon: An old Trojan man mentioned by Homer in Books 2 and 3, a neighbor of Ines; here refers to Banuge. ③ For the story, see the second, second and fifth lines of the first volume of Homer. ④ See Cicero's "Philosophical Dialogues", Volume I, Chapter 8, Section 16, and Plato's "Socrates' Reply" Chapter 40. ① See lines 312 and 312 of Book V of Homer's Odyssey. ② There is still here on the first edition: "The Pythagoreans also said that the soul is fire and belongs to fire, so it dies in water (an element that is incompatible with fire), and it is believed to be eternal destruction." Author and Seminary Opinions differ, and this paragraph will be deleted later.

③ See line 94 of the first volume of Virgil's "Init". ④ The original text is: It is better than three or four times, and a Chinese idiom is borrowed here.