{"id":"01KG8AKT5A9JRC4ESSV0T4HSZM","cid":"bafkreicxligbomtvmb2wpzkqlhxpvy57wak627ebf3sz3s47evincxp2yu","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":11534,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:09.931Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1954N2G0NAERBNJXEX9","start_line":11472,"text":"CHAPTER LXXIX.\r\nBabbalanja At The Full Of The Moon\r\n\r\n\r\n“Ho, mortals! Go we to a funeral, that our paddles seem thus muffled?\r\nUp heart, Taji! or does that witch Hautia haunt thee? Be a demi-god\r\nonce more, and laugh. Her flowers are not barbs; and the avengers’\r\narrows are too blunt to slay. Babbalanja! Mohi! Yoomy! up heart! up\r\nheart!—By Oro! I will debark the whole company on the next land we\r\nmeet. No tears for me. Ha, ha! let us laugh. Ho, Vee-Vee! awake; quick,\r\nboy,—some wine! and let us make glad, beneath the glad moon. Look! it\r\nis stealing forth from its clouds. Perdition to Hautia! Long lives, and\r\nmerry ones to ourselves! Taji, my charming fellow, here’s to you:—May\r\nyour heart be a stone! Ha, ha!—will nobody join me? My laugh is lonely\r\nas his who laughed in his tomb. Come, laugh; will no one quaff wine, I\r\nsay? See! the round moon is abroad.”\r\n\r\n“Say you so, my lord? then for one, I am with you;” cried Babbalanja.\r\n“Fill me a brimmer. Ah! but this wine leaps through me like a panther.\r\nAy, let us laugh: let us roar: let us yell! What, if I was sad but just\r\nnow? Life is an April day, that both laughs and weeps in a breath. But\r\nwhoso is wise, laughs when he can. Men fly from a groan; but run to a\r\nlaugh. Vee-Vee! your gourd. My lord, let me help you. Ah, how it\r\nsparkles! Cups, cups, Vee-Vee, more cups! Here, Taji, take that: Mohi,\r\ntake that: Yoomy, take that. And now let us drown away grief. Ha! ha!\r\nthe house of mourning, is deserted, though of old good cheer kept the\r\nfuneral guests; and so keep I mine; here I sit by my dead, and\r\nreplenish your wine cups. Old Mohi, your cup: Yoomy, yours: ha! ha! let\r\nus laugh, let us scream! Weeds are put off at a fair; no heart bursts\r\nbut in secret; it is good to laugh, though the laugh be hollow; and\r\nwise to make merry, now and for aye. Laugh, and make friends: weep, and\r\nthey go. Women sob, and are rid of their grief: men laugh, and retain\r\nit. There is laughter in heaven, and laughter in hell. And a deep\r\nthought whose language is laughter. Though wisdom be wedded to woe,\r\nthough the way thereto is by tears, yet all ends in a shout. But wisdom\r\nwears no weeds; woe is more merry than mirth; ’tis a shallow grief that\r\nis sad. Ha! ha! how demoniacs shout; how all skeletons grin; we all die\r\nwith a rattle. Laugh! laugh! Are the cherubim grave? Humor, thy laugh\r\nis divine; whence, mirth-making idiots have been revered; and therefore\r\nmay I. Ho! let us be gay, if it be only for an hour, and Death hand us\r\nthe goblet. Vee-Vee! bring on your gourds! Let us pledge each other in\r\nbumpers!—let us laugh, laugh, laugh it out to the last. All sages have\r\nlaughed,—let us; Bardianna laughed, let us; Demorkriti laughed,—let us:\r\nAmoree laughed,—let us; Rabeelee roared,—let us; the hyenas grin, the\r\njackals yell,—let us.—But you don’t laugh, my lord? laugh away!”\r\n\r\n“No, thank you, Azzageddi, not after that infernal fashion; better\r\nweep.”\r\n\r\n“He makes me crawl all over, as if I were an ant-hill,” said Mohi.\r\n\r\n“He’s mad, mad, mad!” cried Yoomy.\r\n\r\n“Ay, mad, mad, mad!—mad as the mad fiend that rides me!—But come, sweet\r\nminstrel, wilt list to a song?—We madmen are all poets, you know:—Ha!\r\nha!—\r\n\r\nStars laugh in the sky:\r\n    Oh fugle-fi I\r\nThe waves dimple below:\r\n    Oh fugle-fo!\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJW03QE4B21RZN4ATXFY1","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1954N2G0NAERBNJXEX9","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKT5ATQ7Y71W0YGNJKPGB","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:16.554Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:28.707Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}