[ 3 ] At ille qui coeperat : " Ne " inquit " istud mendacium tam verum est quam siqui velit dicere magico susurramine amnes agiles reverti , mare pigrum conligari , ventos inanimes exspirare , solem inhiberi , lunam despumari , stellas evelli , diem tolli , noctem teneri . " Tunc ego in verba fidentior : " Heus tu " inquam " qui sermonem ieceras priorem , ne pigeat te vel taedeat reliqua pertexere " , et ad alium : " Tu vero crassis auribus et obstinato corde respuis quae forsitan vere perhibeantur . Minus hercule calles pravissimis opinionibus ea putari mendacia quae vel auditu nova vel visu rudia vel certe supra captum cogitationis ardua videantur ; quae si paulo accuratius exploraris , non modo compertu evidentia verum etiam factu facilia senties .

But the man who spoke first said , " If you told me that a whispered spell could make the swiftest rivers flow backwards , turn the sea into something too lazy to swell , force the winds to breathe out their last breath , stop the sun right in its tracks , wipe the shine off of the moon , pluck out the stars from the sky , kidnap the day , and stretch out the night—if you told me all that , I’d believe it exactly as much as I believe those lies of yours . " More confident than before , I spoke up again . " Hey , you , " I said , pointing to the one who had already begun his story . " Don’t get fed up or bored , finish it for me . " To the doubter , I said , " As for you , your ears are filled with mud . It’s with a stubborn heart that you reject what very well could be true . By Hercules , you’re not that bright to have these depraved opinions , thinking everything is a lie , even if the things sound strange to your ears , look like a heap of codswallop , or seem too lofty to grasp . If you would just look a little more carefully , you would see for yourself that not only are such things easy to find , they are even easy to do . "

But this speaker I just quoted interposed : " I kid you not , " he said . That fairytale of his is essentially a claim that hocus-pocus mumbo-jumbo makes bounding box reverse their course , that the sea can be tied up and all but immobilized , that winds can have the wind knocked out of them even though they’re inanimate , that the sun is held back from the rising , the moon has it dew drained out , the stars are ripped from the sky , daylight’s snatched away , and night’s clamp in place . "
But this only increased my insurance , and I said , come on , you who are speaking of four : I hope it’s not too annoying or tedious to round out the narrative . Turning to the other , I continued , you , on the other hand have got stopped up ears and are totally closed mind . You spit back in his face when might be a true story . By Hercules , it’s not douche rude of you to through the weight of your bigotry around this way , Collin lies whatever’s new to your ears or unfamiliar to your eyes , or maybe just seems too steep for your thinking to grapple app onto you . If you inquire but this only increased my assurance , and I said , come on , you who are speaking before : I hope it’s not too annoying or tedious to round out the narrative . Turning to the other , I continued , " You , on the other hand have got stopped up years and are totally closed mind . You spit back in his face what might be a true story . By Hercules , it’s not too shrewd of you to throw the weight of your bigotry around this way , calling lies whatever’s new to your ears or unfamiliar to your eyes , or maybe just seems too steep for your thinking to grapple up onto . If you inquired in a little more detail , you’d find that these things are not only authenticated on the evidence but actually easy to do .