Chapter 179 Chapter Thirty

How Xenomaen dissected and commented on the priest of fasting Xenomaen said: "When it comes to the internal organization of the fasting leader (at least in those days), the brain is big enough①, the color, temperament and energy are similar to the left testicle of a male maggot. "The interior of the brain is like a corkscrew, "the wormlike wart is like a mallet, "the mucous membrane is like a priest's hood, "the funnel-shaped skull is like a plasterer's mud funnel, "the dome-shaped lid is like a box," the pineal gland Like bagpipes, "thin blood vessels like a hood, "protruding nipples like shoe tips," eardrums like windmills, "temples like bird wings," neck sockets like lamp poles, "muscles like water pipes," and "little tongues like transmission." "The palate is like a porcelain kiln," the saliva is like vegetable oil, the tonsils are like a monocular, "the throat is like a door," the throat is like a basket, "the appetite is like a leather bag," the pylorus is like a fork, and "the trachea is like a handle." Knife, "throat like a ball of hemp," lungs like a donation bag, "heart like a sacrificial cloak," mediastinum like a bowl, "pleura like a hook," arteries like a Payne cloak, "diaphragm like a cinch A hat with a chinstrap, "the liver like a double-edged axe," the veins like a window that opens and closes, "the spleen like a quail flute," the intestines like a fishnet, "the gallbladder like a cooper's adze," the guts like a glove, and the "guts like a glove." The diadem of the elders, "the small intestine is like pliers, ① many of the metaphors here are contradictory. The author opposes religious fasting, and intends to say that the people who make the fast are narrow-minded, but here is intentional.

② The original navette can be interpreted as "shuttle". "The cecum is like a breastplate, "the colon is like a jug, "the large intestine is like a flask, "the kidney is like a trowel, "the kidney is like a lock, "the urethra is like a hook, "the kidney vessels are like two water spray guns, and the "seminal vesicle is like a hook." Mille-feuille, "the prostate is like an ink bottle, "the bladder is like a bow, "the mouth of the bladder is like a hammer, "the stomach is like a pointed hat with a small top and a big bottom, "the peritoneum is like an arm ribbon, "muscles are like a bellows," and "muscles are like a bellows." Tendons are like eagle claws, ligaments are like money bags, bones are like cream cakes, bone marrow is like cloth bags, cartilage is like dry land tortoises, neck glands are like sickles, exhaling is like boxing, inhaling is like torreya, and boiling blood is like a chain He flicked his nose, "peeing is satirizing the Pope," and his genitals were like a hundred long rivets. His nanny told me that after he married Half Lent, all he gave birth to were 'adverbs' ② referring to places and some personalities. 'Extra fast'.

"Memory is like a tie, "common sense is like a bee," imagination is like a bell, "thinking is like a bird," consciousness is like a heron from its nest, "decision is like a piano bag," remorse is like a double-bore cannon, and "planning is like a ship's bottom." "Understanding is like a torn scripture, "wisdom is like a snail crawling out of a bayberry, "will is like three walnuts to a shell, "desire is like six bales of hay, "judgment is like a shoehorn, "caution is like foolishness," Reason is like a wooden bench."

① The original Myquaresme refers to the third Thursday of the Lent period, when marriages are allowed. ② These "adverbs" include unde, qua and qui, which mean "from where", "where to" and "where to pass". It is used a lot because everyone is asking where to get forgiveness of sins.See Journal of Rabelaisian Studies, Vol. IV, pp. 59-72.