Chapter 28

           ANDSOITWENT,dayindayout,weekinweekout,monthinmonthout.Soitwentforsevenlongyears.Meanwhilewarragedintheworldoutside,aworldwar.MenfoughtinSilesiaandSaxony,inHanoverandtheLowCountries,inBohemiaandPomerania.Theking’stroopsdiedinHesseandWestphalia,ontheBalearicIslands,inIndia,ontheMississippiandinCanada,iftheyhadnotalreadysuccumbedtotyphoidonthejourney.Thewarrobbedamillionpeopleoftheirlives,Franceofitscolonialempire,andallthewarringnationsofsomuchmoneythattheyfinallydecided,withheavyhearts,toendit.Onewinterduringthisperiod,Grenouillealmostfrozetodeath,withoutevernoticingit.Forfivedayshelayinhispurplesalon,andwhenheawokeinhistunnelhewassocoldhecouldnotmove.Heclosedhiseyesagainandwouldhaveslepthimselftodeath.Butthentheweatherturnedaround,therewasathaw,andhewassaved.Oncethesnowwassodeepthathedidnothavethestrengthtoburrowdowntothelichen.Hefedhimselfonthestiffcarcassesoffrozenbats.Onceadeadravenlayatthemouthofthecave.Heateit.Theseweretheonlyeventsintheoutsideworldofwhichhetooknoticeforsevenyears.Otherwisehelivedonlywithinhismountain,onlywithintheself-madeempireofhissoul.Andhewouldhaveremainedthereuntilhisdeath(sincehelackedfornothing),ifcatastrophehadnotstruck,drivinghimfromhismountain,vomitinghimbackoutintotheworld.

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