[Penguin Island by Anatole France]@TWC D-Link bookPenguin Island BOOK III 18/63
This is the explanation of the unity of belief. A constant practice of the Church doubtless contributed also to maintain this happy communion of the faithful--every Penguin who thought differently from the others was immediately burned at the stake. IV.
LETTERS: JOHANNES TALPA During the minority of King Gun, Johannes Talpa, in the monastery of Beargarden, where at the age of fourteen he had made his profession and from which he never departed for a single day throughout his life, composed his celebrated Latin chronicle in twelve books called "De Gestis Penguinorum." The monastery of Beargarden lifts its high walls on the summit of an inaccessible peak.
One sees around it only the blue tops of mountains, divided by the clouds. When he began to write his "Gesta Penguinorum," Johannes Talpa was already old.
The good monk has taken care to tell us this in his book: "My head has long since lost," he says, "its adornment of fair hair, and my scalp resembles those convex mirrors of metal which the Penguin ladies consult with so much care and zeal.
My stature, naturally small, has with years become diminished and bent.
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