Categoria: BTG I
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B14
B13 B15 I am an old hand at this. In life, I have so often got into difficult situations and out of them, that this has become almost a matter of habit for me. Meanwhile in the present case, I shall write partly in Russian and party in Armenian, the more readily because among those…
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B15
B14 B16 This kind of people among us who have been turned into, so to say, “moths” destroying the good prepared and left for us by our ancestors and by time, have not the slightest notion and have probably never even heard of the screamingly obvious fact that, during the preparatory age, there is acquired…
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B16
B15 B17 Accordingly, in the brains of people of different races and conditions dwelling in different geographical localities, there are formed about one and the same thing or even idea, a number of quite independent forms, which during functioning, that is to say, association, evoke in their being some sensation or other which subjectively conditions…
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B17
B16 B18 And so, cheerful and swaggering candidate for a buyer of my wiseacrings, having warned you that I am going to write not as “professional writers” usually write but quite otherwise, I advise you, before embarking on the reading of my further expositions, to reflect seriously and only then to undertake it. If not,…
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B42
B41 B43 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 42] But do you know what, reader? In case you decide, despite this Warning, to risk continuing to familiarize yourself with my further writings, and you try to absorb them always with an impulse of impartiality and to understand the very essence of the questions I…
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B43
B42 B44 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 43] It is not for nothing that our renowned and incomparable teacher, Mullah Nassr Eddin, frequently says: “Without greasing the palm not only is it impossible to live anywhere tolerably but even to breathe.” And another also terrestrial sage, who has become such, thanks to the…
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B45
B44 B46 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 45] Wait! Wait! . . . This process, it seems, is also ceasing, and in all the depths of my consciousness, and let us meanwhile say “even beneath my subconsciousness,” there already begins to arise everything requisite for the complete assurance that it will entirely cease,…
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B47
B46 B48 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 47] “The first week of this new service, I once noticed that after performing this duty of mine, I felt for an hour or two vaguely ill at ease. But when this strange feeling, increasing day by day, ultimately became a definite instinctive uneasiness from which…
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B48
B47 B49 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 48] “After a short time, from the other end of this famous salutary oven, there flowed, with a delightful gurgling sound, a definite quantity of pellucid and ideally clean fat to the profit of the fathers of our town for the manufacture of soap and also…
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B49
B48 B50 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 49] “Then the barber-surgeon so infuriated by this that his hair, even beneath his armpits, stood on end, flung his net on the pavement and spitting over his left shoulder, loudly exclaimed: “’Oh, Hell! What a time to ring!’ “As soon as the exclamation of the…
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B50
B49 B51 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 50] “And in fact, since I began to do so, I no longer feel the said instinctive uneasiness.” Well, now, patient reader, I must really conclude this opening chapter. It has now only to be signed. He who . . . Stop! Misunderstanding formation! With a…
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B3
=>B4 Chapter I — The Arousing of Thought ENTRE outras convicções formadas em minha presença comum durante minha vida responsável e peculiarmente composta, há também uma — uma convicção indubitável — de que sempre e em qualquer lugar da Terra, entre pessoas de todos os graus de desenvolvimento da compreensão e de todas as formas…
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B41
B40 B42 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 41] Please, reader, do not worry . . . I shall of course also write of the Earth, but with such an impartial attitude that this comparatively small planet itself and also everything on it shall correspond to that place which in fact it occupies and…
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B6
B5 B7 Just in this alone I shall follow their example and also begin with such an address, but I shall try not to make it very “sugary” as they usually do, owing particularly to their evil wiseacring by which they titillate the sensibilities of the more or less normal reader. Thus . . .…
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B7
B6 B8 Speaking frankly, I inwardly personally discern the center of my confession not in my lack of knowledge of all the rules and procedures of writers, but in my nonpossession of what I have called the “bon ton literary language,” infallibly required in contemporary life not only from writers but also from every ordinary…
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B8
B7 B9 And nothing stuck, as it was quite recently made clear to me, not through any fault of mine, nor through the fault of my former respected and nonrespected teachers, but this human labor was spent in vain owing to one unexpected and quite exceptional event which occurred at the moment of my appearance…