Categoria: Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson (1950 páginas)
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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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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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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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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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B24
B23 B25 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 24] Well, enough of “philologizing.” Let us return to the main task of this initial chapter, destined, among other things, on the one hand to stir up the drowsy thoughts in me as well as in the reader, and, on the other, to warn the reader…
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B25
B24 B26 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 25] I decided to do this without fail so that this initial chapter of mine, predetermined as I have already said to awaken your consciousness, should fully justify its purpose, and reaching not only your, in my opinion, as yet only fictitious “consciousness,” but also your…
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B26
B25 B27 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 26] As a result of this conviction of mine which as yet doubtlessly seems to you the fruit of the fantasies of an afflicted mind, I cannot now, as you yourself see, disregard this second consciousness and, compelled by my essence, am obliged to construct the…
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B27
B26 B28 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 27] Now listen and try to justify, and not to disappoint, my expectations. This original personality of mine, already “smelled out” by certain definite individuals from both choirs of the Judgement Seat Above, whence Objective justice proceeds, and also here on Earth, by as yet a…
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B28
B27 B29 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 28] “Either do nothing – just go to school – or do something nobody else does.” Whereupon she immediately, without hesitation, and with a perceptible impulse of disdain for all around her, and with commendable self-cognizance, gave up her soul directly into the hands of His…
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B29
B28 B30 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 29] During the days following this event, nothing particular happened in my general state, unless there might be connected with it the fact that during these days, I walked more often than usual with my feet in the air, that is to say, on my hands.…
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B31
B30 B32 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 31] And this event occurred under the following circumstances which were perhaps even specially combined by Fate itself. With a number of young rascals like myself, I was once laying snares for pigeons on the roof of a neighbor’s house, when suddenly, one of the boys…
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B32
B31 B33 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 32] He discharged the last words with such a shower of saliva that it was as if my face were exposed to the action of an “atomizer” – not of “Ersatz” production – invented by the Germans for dyeing material with aniline dyes. This was more…
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B33
B32 B34 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 33] Well, then, on beholding the effect of my skill, I was, I must confess, extremely frightened, because, knowing nothing of any such reaction from a blow in that place, I quite thought I had killed him. At the moment I was experiencing this fear, another…
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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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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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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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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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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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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…