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Fābula ex Congressibus ad Fīnem Orbis Terrārum
Congressūs ad Fīnem Orbis Terrārum pellicula est documentāria, annō 2007 edita, quam Varnerius1 Herzogus scrīpsit, ubi inter alia narrātur historia pinguīnī cujusdam quī tam īnsolitō mōre sē gerit ut nihilista appellārī possit.
These penguins are all heading to the open water to the right. But one of them caught our eye, the one in the center. He would neither go towards the feeding grounds at the edge of the ice, nor return to the colony. Shortly afterwards, we saw him heading straight towards the mountains, some seventy kilometres away. Dr. Ainley explained that even if he caught him and brought him back to the colony, he would immediately head right back for the mountains. But why? One of these disoriented, or deranged, penguins showed up at the New Harbor diving camp, already some eighty kilometres away from where he should be. The rules for the humans are: do not disturb or hold up the penguin, stand still and let him go on his way. And here, he’s heading off into the interior of the vast continent. With five thousand kilometers ahead of him, he is heading towards certain death.
Hī omnēs pinguīnī ad mare patēns dextrorsum pergunt. Ūnus tamen eōrum, quī in mediō aderat, oculōs nostrōs ad sē convertit. Neque pascua in extrēmā glaciē sita petēbat, neque ad colōniam revertēbātur. Brevī posteā eum vīdimus rectā ad montēs, quī abhinc ferē septuāgintā chiliometra aberant, contendentem. Doctor Ainley explicāvit, etiamsī eum comprehendisset et ad colōniam retulisset, illum statim rursus ad montēs itūrum fuisse. Sed cūr? Ūnus ex hīs pinguīnīs aberrantibus aut mente captīs ad castra ūrīnātōrum Novī Portūs advēnit, jam octōgintā ferē chiliometra ab eō locō ubi esse dēbēbat prōgressus. Haec hominibus praescrībuntur: nē pinguīnum sollicitent nēve morentur, sed cōnsistant atque eum suō itinere pergere sinant. Atque nunc in interiōra immēnsī continentis proficiscitur. Cum quinque mīlia chiliometrōrum ante sē habeat, ad mortem sibi certam contendit.
Alexius Cosānus brevem carmen elegiacum dē Θείᾳ Μανίᾳ Pinguīnicā scrīpsit, quod vōbīs nōn possum nōn commendāre.
C. Egger, Lexicon nōminum virōrum et mulierum, Rōma, 1963, p. 255.