Comment on Andersen's Fairy Tale Two Islands 100

On the Seran coast opposite the Royal Palace in the Netherlands, there used to be two tree-covered islands: Vino and Gleno. There are villages, churches and fields on it. They are not far from the coast, and the distance between them is very close. But now there is only one island there.

One night, the weather became very bad. The tide is rising-it has never risen like this in people's memory. The storm is getting bigger and bigger. This is the weather of the end of the world. The earth seems to be falling apart. The church clock swings by itself and rings without being struck.

That night, Vino sank into the sea: it never seemed to exist. But then, on many summer nights, when the tide receded and the water became as clear as a mirror, fishermen went out to sea and caught eels under the torch. At this time, his sharp eyes can see Vino in the water, the white church tower and the high church wall above. "Vino is waiting for Grenoble,"-this is a legend. He saw the island, and he heard the bells of the church below. But at this point, he is wrong, because it is just the cry of wild swans who often rest on the water. Their sad cries sounded like distant bells.

Once upon a time, the old people living on Gleno Island can still clearly remember the storm that night, and they can still remember that when they were young, they traveled back and forth between the two islands by car, just as we are now going to Gleno by car from the Seran coast not far from Holstein Palace. At that time, the sea water only reached the middle of the wheel. "Wine is waiting for Grenoble," people say, and everyone believes it.

Many boys and girls like to lie in bed on stormy nights and think that Vino will pick up Gleno tonight. They read the Lord's prayer trembling, so they fell asleep and had some beautiful dreams. The next morning, Grenoble and the Woods and wheat fields above it, the comfortable farmhouse and snake garden were still in their original places, and the birds were singing and the deer were jumping. No matter how far away the gopher burrows, it can't smell the sea.

However, Grenoble's days are over. We are not sure how many days are left, but the date is fixed: the island will sink one morning.

Maybe you went to the beach there yesterday and saw wild swans floating on the water between Ceylon and Gleno, and a sailboat full of wind swept through the Woods. It is also possible to take a bus at low tide, because there is no other way. The horse walks in the water: the water splashes on the wheels.

You left. You can step into the boundless world; Maybe you will come back in a few years: you will see a forest surrounded by a large green meadow. The haystack in front of a farmhouse on the grassland smells delicious. Where are you? Holstein Palace and its golden pagoda still stand there. But it is no longer so close to the sea; It stands high on the land. You walked through the Woods and fields until you reached the beach-where did Grenoble go? You can't see an island full of trees; In front of you is a sea of Wang Yang. Vino really found Grenoble-because it had been waiting too long? What stormy night did this happen? When did the earthquake move this ancient palace in Holstein to the inland 1 mile away?

So it happened not on a stormy night, but on a sunny day. Human wisdom has built a dam against the sea: human wisdom drained the accumulated water and connected Grenoble with the land. The bay has become a grassy meadow, and Grenoble and Solan are closely related.