Chapter 192 Chapter Forty-Three

How did Pagoda come to the island of eating wind Two days later, we came to the island of eating the wind, and I swear by the name of the Pleiades, the way of life of the people there is much more strange than what I have described.They live only on the wind.They eat and drink nothing but the wind.Their dwellings are full of wind banners.There are only three kinds of wind-pollinating grasses in the garden, and they carefully pull out the wind-killing grasses and other wind-killing grasses.Ordinary people use feather fans, paper fans and silk fans according to their ability and strength when eating wind.Those who are richer use windmills.

When there is a festive banquet, the banquet will be held under one or two windmills.They drank to their heart's content as if they were celebrating a wedding, and talked about how good the atmosphere was, how beautiful it was, how hygienic, and how rare it was, just like you wine lovers talk about wine while drinking.This one praises the southeast wind, that one praises the southwest wind, this one praises a mild southwest wind, that one says the north wind is good, this one praises the northwest wind, that one flaunts the northeast wind, and so on.There are also people who like the shirt style, which is for young men who are in love.Sick people only eat wind like farts, just like the sick people in our hometown eat liquid juice⑤.

A little man with a bulging stomach said to me: "Ah! how nice it is to have that pleasant wind of the Languedoc called the north-west wind!" Pass by and tell me that the wind is so strong that it can overturn a loaded vehicle. It must be good to let it blow my wind-sore swollen leg! The stronger the wind, the better!" "I'd rather have a barrel of Languedoc wine," said Banurge, "that kind of wine that comes out of Mireux, Conde Verdry, and Frontignan!" I then saw a man of great appearance, with a distended belly, angry at one of his fat servants and a little squire, and kicking them viciously with his boot.I don't know the reason for his anger, but I thought it was the doctor's idea, because beating someone in anger is a hygienic act for a master, just like beating is exercise for a servant.I heard later that he beat the servants because someone had stolen most of his bag of Southwest Winds, which he had carefully stored away as the best food for the fall.

People on this island never defecate, urinate, or spit.But on the other hand, he farts silently and loudly, and hiccups a lot.They suffer from all kinds of diseases.As Hippocrates said in lib. de Flatibus ②, all diseases are caused by the accumulation of Qi.And their most common disease is gas stagnation abdominal pain.The cure is to use a very large cupping jar to draw the gas into it.They all died of bloat and bloat, the men farted with sound, the women with silent fart.Therefore, the soul always comes out of the asshole when it leaves them. ① The original word Ruach comes from the Hebrew word Rouakh, which means "wind".

② The ancients regarded the appearance of the Pleiades as a sign of a storm. ③ The original anemones is a plant of the genus Pulsatilla in the family Ranunculaceae. ④ Songfengcao: a dicotyledonous plant. ⑤ "Fart" (vent couliz) and "flow juice" (couliz) in the original text are a word with double meanings. ⑥ Skullon: Refers to the author’s guarantor John Schillon when he entered the University of Montpellier. This kind of wind was mentioned in Section 69, Chapter 5, Volume II of the Collected Works). ① "Thousands of Miles" and "Lao Baigan" from Mirfu and Frontignan were famous fine wines in the 16th century, and Conde Verdry is also a famous wine region in Montpellier.

② Latin: "On Gases" book. Later, when we were wandering around the island, we met three big men with stomachs full of wind. They came to see Ju Zhen playing. There are a lot of these birds, and like them, they live on the wind.I saw them, just like you who love to drink, always carry wine bottles, wine jugs, and wine crops when they walk, and each of them carries a small bellows in his waist.When there is no wind, they make fresh air themselves by sucking it in and blowing it out, because, you know, the wind, after all, is nothing but drifting air. At this time, the local king sent someone to convey an order to us that within three hours, no local man or woman would be allowed to board our boat.For someone stole from him a leather bag of wind, the wind that formerly watched the snoring Aeolus move Ulysses' ship in calm, and he was always like another holy blood Closely stored, and cured of several serious diseases, it is only given to the sick a little bit like a virgin's fart—the nuns call it a "scented bag"③.

① Jujiu: A bird like a snipe. It was said at that time that they did not eat and lived only on air (wind). ② For the story, see the nineteenth line of Chapter Ten of Homer's "Odyssey". ③ The original text sonnet means "sound", and the nuns were ashamed to say "fart", so they coined a term to replace it; in addition, the sonnet, which was called sonnet in France, became popular at that time, I don't know if the author intended to mention this.