The three little constructors
Les trois petits
constructeurs
Once upon a time, three
little constructors believed they were as gifted as the great Trurl himself.
The first one was called
He built a machine that could
But Cochonfucius arrived and began to huff and puff. There was a scattering of
and such was the end of the
first machine.
ran quickly to
machine, which was designed to
Unfortunately, Cochonfucius had been following him,
and he huffed and puffed again, dispersing all trace of
Such was the end of the
second machine.
ran to
place. His machine was used to
and it had a big chimney. Cochonfucius, having followed his two victims,
huffed and puffed once more, but he could not shatter the clouds of heavy
So he climbed on top of the machine, in order to see through the chimney. However, he inhaled so much empiricism in the process, that he almost became one more empiricist creature on this planet.
But he recovered, and by chanting Our body is a tree
for quite a long time, he turned the three little constructors
into harmless little metaphysicians. So he went to his garden to take a nap.