Volume II Part 38 (1/2)
CHAPTER LIX They Converse Of The Mollusca, Kings, Toad-Stools And Other Matters
Once ained Vivenza's southwestern side and there, beheld vast swarreat loads of earth; which they tossed upon the beach
”It is true, then,” said Media ”that these free them to their own, piece-riculturally, and peaceably”
”My lord, they pay a price for every canoe-load,” said Mohi
”Ay, old ain with the other”
”Yet charge it not upon all Vivenza,” said Babbalanja ”Sos: and when their country war”
”And therein, Babbalanja, is involved one of those anomalies in the condition of Vivenza,” said Media, ”which I can hardly cos to divide theue intact?”
”All plain, it is because the model, whence they derive their union, is one of nature's planning My lord, have you ever observed thethe molluscs of the Tunicata order,--in other words, a species of cuttle-fish, abounding at the bottooon?”
”Yes: in clear weather about the reefs, I have beheld theain: but never with an eye to their political condition”
”Ah! , we should not cut off the nervous communication between our eyes, and our cerebellu the Tunicata order of mollusca, sir philosopher?”
”My very honorable lord, I hurry to conclude They live in a coh connected by ue--each ests its own dinners; and grins and bears its own gripes, without i shark touches one member, it ruffles all Precisely thus noith Vivenza In that confederacy, there are as many consciences as tribes; hence, if one ht afterwards repudiated, the sin rests on itself alone; is not participated”
”A very subtle explanation, Babbalanja You must allude, then, to those recreant tribes; which, while in their own eyes presenting a subli Bello's, do but present a hopeless example of bad debts And these, the tribes that boast of boundless wealth”
”Most true, matizes all Vivenza, as a unity”
”Babbalanja, you yourself are o,--'tis not _you_ that are unwell; but your spine”
”As you will, my lord I have said But to speak no more on that head --what sort of a sensation, think you, life is to such creatures as those mollusca?”
”Answer your own question, Babbalanja”
”I will; but first tell me what sort of a sensation life is to you, yourself, eddi”
”Directly; but tell me, if you will, my lord, what sort of a sensation life is to a toad-stool”
”Pray, Babbalanja put all three questions together; and then, do what you have often done before, pronounce yourself a lunatic”
”My lord, I beseech you, re Nor will any wise man call another a fool”
”Do you take me for a mere man, then, Babbalanja, that you talk to me thus?”