Volume II Part 15 (2/2)
”In sooth, a ; it should be carved upon his to his pipe
”What! would you have my epitaph read thus:--'Here lies the emptiest of mortals, as full of hiuous, Mohi”
”Now have I the philosopher,” cried Yoo since, Babbalanja, when in theof mine, Braid-Beard bestowed upon me an equivocal coh I tortured it to the quick?”
”Take thy own pills, philosopher,” said Mohi
”Then would he be a great original,” said Media
”Tell me, Yoomy,” said Babbalanja, ”are you not in fault? Because I soine that I should always act so”
”I never iined that,” said Yoomy, ”and, if I did, the truth would belieyour pardon”
”The es to-day,” said Media
”This, then, thrice gentle Yoomy, is what I would say;” resumed Babbalanja, ”that since we philosophers bestow so much wisdom upon others, it is not to be wondered at, if now and then we find what is left in us too small for our necessities It is from our very abundance that ant”
”And from the fool's poverty,” said Media, ”that he is opulent; for his very simplicity, is soe But ere discoursing of the Tapparians Babbalanja: sententiously you have acquitted yourself to admiration; now amplify, and tell us ht amplify forever”
”Then, in,” interposed Braid-Beard
”I mean,” said Babbalanja, ”that all subjects are inexhaustible, however trivial; as theproduced into an infinite line”
”But forever extending into nothing,” said Media ”A very bad example to follow Do you, Babbalanja, come to the point, and not travel off with it, which is too much your wont”
”Since my lord insists upon it then, thus ht or two of nore the rest of Mardi, while they themselves are but a ru and dying goes on with the same uniformity, as if there were no Tapparians in existence They think themselves Mardi in full; whereas, by the ies; exceptions to the law, ordaining that no Mardian shall undertake to live, unless he set out with at least the average quantity of brains For these Tapparians have no brains In lieu, they carry in one corner of their craniums, a drop or two of attar of roses; charily used, the supply being small They are the victims of two incurable maladies: stone in the heart, and ossification of the head They are full of fripperies, fopperies, and finesses; knowing not, that nature should be the ht appear less silly than they do, were they content to be the plain idiots which at bottorains of sense in a si as he be natural But what can be expected from them? They are irreclaimable Tapparians; not so much fools by contrivance of their own, as by an express, though inscrutable decree of Oro's For one, my lord, I can not abide them”
Nor could Taji
In Pi: none of the royal good cheer of old Borabolla; none of the mysteries of Maramma; none of the sentiends: no singing of old songs; no life; no jolly couales
CHAPTER XXVIII Babbalanja Regales The Coht But the oon
Over silvery billoe glided
”Co! a song! my bird of paradise”