B664 <=> B666 [BTG XXXVII France, p. 665]

“All this interested me more and more each day, because, existing among them, it gradually became clear to me that the beings of that community were not only not the most depraved and immoral, but on the contrary they seemed to be the most ‘patriarchal’ and ‘modest’ beings of all the three-brained beings who were grouped on the continent Europe.

“So I then began specially to observe and to acquire corresponding information, in order to elucidate for myself just that contemporary terrestrial question.

“While I was there in that provincial town, I was unable to elucidate anything for myself, but later, when I happened to go to the capital of those French beings, then there, from the very first day, the basic causes of that misunderstanding also began to be gradually elucidated in my Reason.

“For the elucidation of these causes, the following facts then served there and also my impartial observations and considerations.

“When I went this time to that capital named ‘Paris’ – which, by the way, had now in the logicnestarian-crystallization of the contemporary three-brained beings of your planet, breeding on all the continents, already completely become also such a center of their imagined culture as the cities Samlios, Koorkalai, Babylon and so on, were for the beings of former periods in their time – I went straight from the railway station to the hotel which had been recommended to me while still in the city of Berlin by an acquaintance of mine.

“The first thing that I happened to notice was that all the servants of that hotel then consisted of foreigners who mostly spoke the English language, whereas, not so long ago, as it seems, all the servants of this same hotel spoke only the Russian language.