{"id":"01KG8AKY54GNH4WCC6DF8V1PN0","cid":"bafkreihbnoq27d6d3epqiephjbcvpfhswzfnyanmmhopjaez4i2otk6xjy","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":9670,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:18.539Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 2","source_file":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","start_line":9620,"text":"And in the fullness of time, this people became numerous and mighty.\r\nAnd the more numerous and mighty they waxed, by so much the more did\r\nthey take pride and glory in their origin, frequently reverting to it\r\nwith manifold boastings. The proud device of their monarch was a hand\r\nwith the forefinger crooked, emblematic of the peculatory propensities\r\nof his ancestors.\r\n\r\nAnd all this, at greater length, said Mohi.\r\n\r\n“It would seem, then, my lord,” said Babbalanja, reclining, “as if\r\nthese men of Ohonoo had canonized the derelictions of their\r\nprogenitors, though the same traits are deemed scandalous among\r\nthemselves. But it is time that makes the difference. The knave of a\r\nthousand years ago seems a fine old fellow full of spirit and fun,\r\nlittle malice in his soul; whereas, the knave of to-day seems a sour-\r\nvisaged wight, with nothing to redeem him. Many great scoundrels of our\r\nChronicler’s chronicles are heroes to us:—witness, Marjora the usurper.\r\nAy, time truly works wonders. It sublimates wine; it sublimates fame;\r\nnay, is the creator thereof; it enriches and darkens our spears of the\r\nPalm; enriches and enlightens the mind; it ripens cherries and young\r\nlips; festoons old ruins, and ivies old heads; imparts a relish to old\r\nyams, and a pungency to the Ponderings of old Bardianna; of fables\r\ndistills truths; and finally, smooths, levels, glosses, softens, melts,\r\nand meliorates all things. Why, my lord, round Mardi itself is all the\r\nbetter for its antiquity, and the more to be revered; to the\r\ncozy-minded, more comfortable to dwell in. Ah! if ever it lay in embryo\r\nlike a green seed in the pod, what a damp, shapeless thing it must have\r\nbeen, and how unpleasant from the traces of its recent creation. The\r\nfirst man, quoth old Bardianna, must have felt like one going into a\r\nnew habitation, where the bamboos are green. Is there not a legend in\r\nMaramma, that his family were long troubled with influenzas and\r\ncatarrhs?”\r\n\r\n“Oh Time, Time, Time!” cried Yoomy—“it is Time, old midsummer Time,\r\nthat has made the old world what it is. Time hoared the old mountains,\r\nand balded their old summits, and spread the old prairies, and built\r\nthe old forests, and molded the old vales. It is Time that has worn\r\nglorious old channels for the glorious old rivers, and rounded the old\r\nlakes, and deepened the old sea! It is Time—”\r\n\r\n“Ay, full time to cease,” cried Media. “What have you to do with\r\ncogitations not in verse, minstrel? Leave prose to Babbalanja, who is\r\nprosy enough.”\r\n\r\n“Even so,” said Babbalanja, “Yoomy, you have overstepped your province.\r\nMy lord Media well knows, that your business is to make the metal in\r\nyou jingle in tags, not ring in the ingot.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 2"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJWVXCG5G43NP3NSJ9A32","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKY5423WMSYVD5RJWKXB9","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:20.644Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:33.037Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}