Categoria: BTG I
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B34
B33 B35 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 34] After this silence, unusual for us “young rascals,” the usual hubbub broke out again, and in this hubbub it was decided to go immediately to the barber, a specialist in extracting teeth, and to ask him just why this tooth was like that. So we…
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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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B35
B34 B36 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 35] This property newly formed in me after this event – when I, of course with the co-operation of our ALL-COMMON MASTER THE MERCILESS HEROPASS, that is the “flow of time,” was transformed into the young man already depicted by me – became for me a…
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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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B19
B18 B20 I shall do this without fail, moreover, because I just now again remember the story of what happened to a Transcaucasian Kurd, which story I heard in my quite early youth and which in subsequent years, whenever I recalled it in corresponding cases, engendered in me an enduring and inextinguishable impulse of tenderness.…
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B36
B35 B37 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 36] Once upon a time a certain Russian, who in external appearance was to those around him a simple merchant, had to go from his provincial town on some business or other to this second capital of Russia, the city of Moscow, and his son, his…
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B20
B19 B21 Having finished his business in town, he set off again on foot for home the same day. Walking at sunset over the hills and dales, and willy-nilly perceiving the exterior visibility of those enchanting parts of the bosom of Great Nature, the Common Mother, and involuntarily inhaling a pure air uncontaminated by the…
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B37
B36 B38 [BTG I The arousing of thought, pp. 1-37/38] Thereupon the salesman, making as is said the “oleaginous” face proper to all salesmen, replied that the book indeed cost only forty-five kopecks, but had to be sold at sixty because fifteen kopecks were added for postage. After this reply to our Russian merchant who…
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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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B21
B20 B22 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 21] “What are you doing, you Jericho jackass? You’ll be burnt alive! Stop eating that extraordinary product, so unaccustomed for your nature.” But our Kurd replied: “No, for nothing on Earth will I stop. Didn’t I pay my last two cents for them? Even if my…
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B39
B38 B40 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 39] If before my acquaintance with this “all-universal principle of living” I had actualized all manifestations differently from other biped animals similar to me, arising and vegetating with me on one and the same planet, then I did so automatically, and sometimes only half consciously, but…
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B22
B21 B23 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 22] And so, for the purpose of avoiding any misunderstanding through this inherency, the data for which are formed in the entirety of contemporary man, thanks evidently to his frequenting of the cinema and thanks also to his never missing an opportunity of looking into the…
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B40
B39 B41 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 40] “If you go on a spree then go the whole hog including the postage.” And now, for instance, in the present case also, since, owing to causes not dependent on me, but flowing from the strange and accidental circumstances of my life, I happen to…
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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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B23
B22 B24 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 23] But in the event that notwithstanding this warning of mine, you should, nevertheless, wish to become acquainted with the further contents of my expositions, then there is already nothing else left for me to do but to wish you with all my “genuine soul” a…
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B10
B9 B11 The Russian language, it cannot be denied, is very good. I even like it, but . . . only for swapping anecdotes and for use in referring to someone’s parentage. The Russian language is like the English, which language is also very good, but only for discussing in “smoking rooms,” while sitting on…
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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…