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Penguin Island

BOOK IV
12/24

Have you a passport ?" "Here it is." "Go and get it signed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." A lame guide who conducted me came to a pause in a vast square.
"The insula," said he, "has given birth, as you know, to Trinco, the greatest genius of the universe, whose statue you see before you.

That obelisk standing to your right commemorates Trinco's birth; the column that rises to your left has Trinco crowned with a diadem upon its summit.

You see here the triumphal arch dedicated to the glory of Trinco and his family." "What extraordinary feat has Trinco performed ?" I asked.
"War." "That is nothing extraordinary.

We Malayans make war constantly." "That may be, but Trinco is the greatest warrior of all countries and all times.

There never existed a greater conqueror than he.


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