Thursday, January 20, 2022
Oracles
Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pécuchet, chapter 8 (tr. A.J. Krailsheimer):
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The priest related still more astonishing stories. A missionary once saw Brahmins walking across a vault head downwards, the Grand Lama of Tibet strains his bowels open to give oracles.Related posts:
'Are you joking?' said the doctor.
'Not at all!'
'Come on now, that's a tall story!'
L'abbé rapporta des histoires plus étonnantes. Un missionnaire a vu des brahmanes parcourir une voûte la tête en bas, le Grand-Lama au Thibet se fend les boyaux, pour rendre des oracles.
—Plaisantez-vous? dit le médecin.
—Nullement.
—Allons donc! Quelle farce!
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