Categoria: BTG XLII
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B977
B976 B978 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 977] “And these customs are so deeply implanted in their everyday existence by their religion that at the present time, observing them mechanically without any wiseacring, beings are thereby more or less ensured against several evils which owing to the abnormally established conditions of being-existence have been…
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B978
B977 B979 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 978] “The second custom I mentioned, namely, abdest, which by the way is called differently by the beings of different groups on the continent Asia, is nothing else than the obligatory ablution of the sex organs after every visit to what is called the ‘toilet.’ “Thanks chiefly…
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B979
B978 B980 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 979] “In general he always drank more than enough of the ‘alcoholic liquids’ existing there; and when we happened to be together in Paris in the restaurants on Montmartre where it was obligatory to order champagne which I neither liked nor drank, he would always drink it…
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B980
B979 B981 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 980] “’Thus it came about that every time I began to feel the same unpleasant sensation I began to drink this alcohol, even with a feeling of some self-justification, and in this way became gradually accustomed to this, as you have quite justly called it, poison.’ “Having…
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B981
B980 B982 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 981] “When we were seated in the hall of the restaurant and had ordered their ‘famous champagne,’ he continued as follows: “’When you lived among us in Persia, my dear Doctor, you perhaps happened to observe the attitude existing there, very specific for us Persians, of men…
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B982
B981 B983 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 982] “’After long impartial labors they discovered, in the first place, that the men who contracted this disease were exclusively those in whose subconsciousness, for some reason or other, there never arose any impulse of faith in anybody or in anything, and secondly, that those adult men…
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B983
B982 B984 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 983] “’Almost all the chiefs of the governments of that time fully agreed with this conclusion of the representatives of all the peoples of the continent of Asia who had gathered together in the capital of the Kilmantooshian Khanate, and, without experiencing any remorse of conscience, they…
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B984
B983 B985 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 984] “’”Although at this age this laziness is as yet only automatic in them, and young people have not to make very great efforts to overcome it, and are able in consequence, on acquiring their own good sense, not to allow it to gain complete control of…
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B985
B984 B986 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 985] “’”A woman with such a nature of course does not wish to fulfill the obligations of a genuine woman-mother, and in view of the fact that being a prostitute enables her just to do nothing and to experience great pleasure, there is gradually formed in her…
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B986
B985 B987 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 986] “’And so, respected Doctor! Thanks just to the aforesaid causes wisely understood by my uncle, many women prostitutes from various other countries then appeared after several years among us in Persia. “’And owing to the instinctive attitudes which, as I have already said, had been acquired…
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B987
B986 B988 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 987] “’And every normal Persian – normal in the sense of not being under the influence of tambak, alcohol, or opium, the consumption of which has in recent times been unfortunately spreading among us ever more and more – can always unmistakedly tell which woman represents a…
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B988
B987 B989 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 988] “’And so, respected Doctor, I lived until my twentieth year in Persia under these morals and traditions, like every ordinary normal Persian. “’At twenty, on account of shares I had inherited, I happened to become a partner in a certain large firm which exported Persian dried…
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B989
B988 B990 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 989] “’As I happened by chance to learn, they came to the clear conclusion that in general where “polyandry” and “polygamy” prevail – that is to say, where “more than one wife” and “more than one husband” are permitted by the established local morale – there is…
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B990
B989 B991 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 990] “’Just look around and see what is going on everywhere here. “’Glance around merely at these rooms of the Grand Cafe, where besides the ordinary professional prostitutes and “gigolos” who are constantly here, hundreds of men and women are always sitting at the little tables gaily…
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B991
B990 B992 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 991] “’Hence it is that any one slightly cunning man here may already be accounted a very “honorable man” and the “patriarchal father of a family.” “’To those around him it is of no concern that this “honorable” and “patriarchal father of a family” has perhaps at…
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B992
B991 B993 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 992] “’Here, the reciprocal inner relationship between husband and wife is the same; just as almost all the inner life of the husband is spent in being unfaithful to his one legal wife, so also the inner life of this one wife, from the first day of…
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B993
B992 B994 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 993] “’Here one can now distinguish the woman-mother from the woman-female only if one sees all her manifestations with one’s own eyes. “’In the European conditions of family life, owing to the absence of the beneficent institution of polygamy – an institution which in my opinion should…
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B994
B993 B995 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 994] “’Although this cost me at the time much suffering and remorse of conscience, yet the environment together again with the action of this alcohol caused me to fall a second time; and thereafter everything headed so to say down an inclined plane and led to the…
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B995
B994 B996 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 995] “’But, tell me, please, are you really not afraid of being infected with those terrible diseases which these women usually suffer from, whom a “petticoat-chaser” like you runs after?’ “At this question of mine he again sighed deeply and after a short pause told me as…
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B996
B995 B997 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 996] “’Although none of the local specialists found anything at all in me, I nevertheless continued to doubt, because on the one hand my fretting about my health and on the other hand my own common sense continued to assure me that I must certainly already have…