Chapter 27 Notre Dame de Paris (2) Volume 4 Good People (5)

Four dogs and their master After all, Quasimodo harbored malice and hatred for everyone but one, and loved him like Notre Dame, perhaps more so.The man was Claude Frollo. The matter is very simple.Claude Frollo had taken him, taken him in, raised him, raised him.A little boy, whenever the dogs and children barked at him, he would run and hide under Claude Frollo's crotch. Claude Frollo taught him to speak, read and write.Claude Frollo also made him the Bell Ringer.However, betrotting the bell to Quasimodo is tantamount to betrotting Juliet to Romeo. Quasimodo's gratitude, therefore, is deep, ardent, and boundless.Quasimodo never ceased to be grateful for a moment, despite his adoptive father's stern and gloomy face, and despite his short, blunt, and tyrannical words.From Quasimodo, the archdeacon found the most obedient slave, the most docile servant, and the most vigilant bulldog in the world.When the poor bellringer became deaf, he and Claude Frollo established a mysterious language of signs, understood only by them.

In this way, the archdeacon became the only person with whom Quasimodo still maintained ideological communication.In this world, Quasimodo has only two relations: Notre-Dame and Claude Frollo. There is nothing in the world so powerful as the archdeacon's dominion over the bell-ringer, and nothing like the bell-ringer's affection for the archdeacon.As soon as Claude made a gesture, as soon as he thought of trying to please the archdeacon, Quasimodo rushed down from the bell tower of Notre-Dame.It is inconceivable that such an abundance of physical strength in Quasimodo, developed to such a remarkable degree, should be at the disposal of another without knowing it.It undoubtedly contains son-like filial piety and slave-like obedience; it also contains the deterrent power of one soul to another.

This is a poor, stupid, clumsy organism, facing another noble, deep-thinking, powerful and intelligent figure, always bowing its head and begging for mercy in its eyes.In the end, what transcends all of this is gratitude.This kind of gratitude pushed to the limit is simply incomparable.This virtue no longer belongs to the category of virtues that are regarded as demeanor in the world.That's why we say that Quasimodo's love for the archdeacon is beyond the reach of dogs, horses, and elephants for their masters. 5 Claude Frollo (continued) In 1482, Quasimodo was about twenty years old, and Claude Frollo was about thirty-six: the one was grown up, the other looked old.

Claude Frollo was no longer the ordinary student of Torch Theological Seminary, the tender protector who cared for a child, the knowledgeable and ignorant The dreamy young philosopher was gone.He is now a self-disciplined, sober, melancholy priest, ruler of the souls of the world, vicar of Joza, second confidant of the Bishop of Paris, and dean of the dioceses of Montlieri and Châteaufort. , leading one hundred and seventy-four village priests.This is a majestic and gloomy figure.When he crossed his arms, his head bowed on his chest, and his whole face showed only the bald forehead, majestic and pensive, he walked slowly under the high pointed arches of the choir, wearing The choirboys in their white robes and gowns, the monks of St. Augustine's, the priests of Notre-Dame, trembled with terror.

However, Don Claude Frollo did not give up learning, nor did he give up the education of his younger brother, which were two major events in his life.However, with the passage of time, these two sweet and comforting things have also become slightly bitter.As Paul Duacre said, the best lard gets stale over time.This little John Frollo, nicknamed the mill, did not grow in the direction his brother Claude had originally determined for him due to the influence of the mill environment where he was fostered. ① Paul Diacre (about 720-about 799), Lombard historian. The elder brother expected him to be a pious, docile, learned, and decent student, but the younger brother, like a sapling, failed the gardener's intentions and stubbornly grew towards the air and sunlight.The little brother thrives, grows luxuriantly and lushly, but always develops in the direction of laziness, ignorance and debauchery.He was a veritable troublemaker, dissolute enough to make Don Frollo frown;Claude sent him to the Seminary of Torchi, where he had spent his first years of study and solemn life; this sacred temple, which had been distinguished for a time by the name of Frollo, was now disgraced by it. , Claude couldn't help feeling extremely painful.At times he had lashed out at John for it, and John had bravely endured it.After all, the little rascal had a good heart, which is the norm in all comedies.However, just after the reprimand, he was still the same as before, and he continued to do his deviant and absurd acts with peace of mind.Now to welcome some youngster (that's what new college students are called)—this precious tradition has been carefully preserved to our day; , almost the whole class was mobilized, beat the hotel owner with an "offensive stick", and happily ransacked the hotel, even smashing the wine barrels in the wine cellar. ① The original text is Latin.So the sub-supervisor of the Torchi Seminary wrote a splendid report in Latin, and sent it pitifully to Don Frollo, with the sad margin that a brawl was chiefly due to lust ①.Moreover, it is said, his absurdities even went as far as to go to the Rue de Glarigny again and again, which is appalling for a boy of sixteen.

For all this, Claude's benevolence was shattered, and he was full of sorrow and discouraged, and threw himself into the arms of learning with increasing fanaticism: at least the eldest sister will not laugh at you, you are courteous to her, she always You are rewarded, although the rewards are sometimes quite meager.Consequently, he became more and more learned, and at the same time, as a consequence of some natural logic, he became more and more harsh as a priest and more and more sentimental as a human being.In each of us there are certain similarities in intellect, character, and character, which are always in a continuous development, interrupted only by serious disturbances in life.

Claude Frollo dabbled in almost all fields of human knowledge as early as his youth, such as positive, external, and normative knowledge, and browsed all of them, so unless he thought he had reached the limit③ and stopped down, it has to go on, looking for other food to satisfy its ever-hungry intellectual needs.It is especially appropriate to use the ancient symbol of a snake gnawing its tail to represent learning.It seems that Claude Frollo has a personal experience of this.Some serious people assert that Claude, having exhausted the good of human knowledge, ventured into the realm of evil.It is said that he has tasted the apples of the tree of knowledge ⑤ one by one, ① the original text is Latin. ②Glarini Street in the original text was the place where dirty places gathered at that time. ③④The original text is Latin. ⑤ Quote the story of Adam and Eve.Adam's woman couldn't stand the temptation of the snake, and Adam couldn't stand the temptation of the woman, so he ate the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and their eyes were opened.Then, perhaps because of hunger, or perhaps because he was tired of eating the wisdom fruit, he finally bit into the forbidden fruit.As the judges have seen, the various lectures of the theologians of the Sorbonne, the assembly of the BAs in imitation of St. Hilaire, the debates of the oracles in imitation of St. Martin, the medical scholars at the font of Notre-Dame At the party, Claude took turns to attend.

He has devoured all the approved recipes that the four great faculties, the four famous chefs, can formulate and provide for the intellect, but he is already tired of eating.So, I dug farther and deeper, until I dug to the bottom of this exhausted, specific, and limited knowledge, perhaps at the risk of my own soul, going deep into the crypt, sitting in the seat of alchemists, astrologers, and alchemists. at the mystical table at which sits at one end the medieval Averroes, the Parisian Guillaume, and Nicolas Flamel, and which, illuminated by the seven-candelabra, remains Extending to Solomon, Pythagoras ④ and Zoroaster ⑤ in the east.

Rightly or wrongly, at least that's what people assume. It is true that the Archdeacon often visited the Cemetery of the Holy Child, where his parents were indeed buried with the other victims of the plague of 1466; It seems far less pious than the strange statues on the nearby tombs of Nicolas Flamel and his wife Claude Perel. ① refers to the fruit of carnal desire. ② St. Hilaire: This refers to an ancient Benedictine monastery. ③ Averroes (1126-1198): Arab philosopher.In his works, he commented on Aristotle's philosophy, and developed two theories of materialism and rationality.Later his theory was condemned as heresy by the church.

④ Pythagoras (about 580 BC - about 500 BC): Ancient Greek mathematician, philosopher, founder of ancient Greek esoteric religion. ⑤ Zoroastrian (approximately 7th to 6th centuries BC): Reformer of ancient Persian religion, founder of Jacko religion.