{"id":"01KG8AKN25TGFHF29W67VGC770","cid":"bafkreiauwmr2ulq4fnwhar77jq4n6d5fbzz4kgi3srwnwwmt2tziwcnjxq","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":2386,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:09.927Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 3","source_file":"01KG89J1954N2G0NAERBNJXEX9","start_line":2357,"text":"“Truly, Oh-Oh,” said Babbalanja, “your discoveries must ere long result\r\nin something grand; since you furnish such invaluable data for\r\ntheorists. Pray, attend, my lord Media. If, at one spring, a flea leaps\r\ntwo hundred times its own length, then, with the like proportion of\r\nmuscles in his calves, a bandit might pounce upon the unwary traveler\r\nfrom a quarter of a mile off. Is it not so, Oh-Oh?”\r\n\r\n“Indeed, but it is, my masters. And one of the greatest consolations I\r\ndraw from these studies, is the ever-strengthening conviction of the\r\nbeneficent wisdom that framed our Mardi. For did men possess thighs in\r\nproportion to fleas, verily, the wicked would grievously leap about,\r\nand curvet in the isles.”\r\n\r\n“But Oh-Oh,” said Babbalanja, “what other discoveries have you made?\r\nHast yet put a usurer under your lens, to find his conscience? or a\r\nlibertine, to find his heart? Hast yet brought your microscope to bear\r\nupon a downy peach, or a rosy cheek?”\r\n\r\n“I have,” said Oh-Oh, mournfully; “and from the moment I so did, I have\r\nhad no heart to eat a peach, or salute a cheek.”\r\n\r\n“Then dash your lens!” cried Media.\r\n\r\n“Well said, my lord. For all the eyes we get beyond our own, but\r\nminister to infelicity. The microscope disgusts us with our Mardi; and\r\nthe telescope sets us longing for some other world.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 3"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJQ1AXYV6P72ERCVTGNDX","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1954N2G0NAERBNJXEX9","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKN250NSETR0RR2JW0P0G","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:11.333Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:20.650Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}