Categoria: Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson (1950 páginas)
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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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B11
B10 B12 And the chief reason for this unhappiness of mine in my almost already mellow age, results from the fact that since childhood there was implanted in my peculiar psyche, together with numerous other rubbish also unnecessary for contemporary life, such an inherency as always and in everything automatically enjoins the whole of me…
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B12
B11 B13 Briefly, if I exercise my privilege and take the good end of the stick, then the bad end must inevitably fall “on the reader’s head.” This may indeed happen, because in Russian the so to say “niceties” of philosophical questions cannot be expressed, which questions I intend to touch upon in my writings…
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B13
B12 B14 Almost the same might be said about my native language, Greek, which I spoke in childhood and, as might be said, the “taste of the automatic associative power of which” I still retain. I could now, I dare say, express anything I wish in it, but to employ it for writing is for…
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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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B51
B50 <=> B52 [BTG II Why in solar system, p. 51] Capítulo II Introdução – Por que Belzebu estava em nosso sistema solar FOI NO ANO 223 após a criação do mundo, segundo o cálculo objetivo do tempo, ou, como seria dito aqui na “Terra”, no ano 1921 após o nascimento de Cristo. Através do…
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B52
B51 B53 [BTG II Why in solar system, p. 52] Besides, time itself had by now inevitably aged him, and the said unusual conditions of existence had brought Beelzebub, just that Beelzebub who had had such an exceptionally strong, fiery, and splendid youth, to an also exceptional old age. Long, long before, while Beelzebub was…
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B53
B52 <=> B54 [BTG II Why in solar system, p. 53] Entre esses exilados, além dos ditos companheiros de Belzebu, havia um número daqueles que meramente simpatizavam com ele, e também os assistentes e subordinados tanto de Belzebu quanto de seus companheiros. Todos, com suas famílias, chegaram a esse lugar remoto e, em pouco tempo,…
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B54
B53 <=> B55 [BTG II Why in solar system, p. 54] E assim, para um certo planeta deste sistema solar, a saber, o planeta Terra, foi uma vez enviado como tal um Mensageiro de nossa ETERNIDADE, um certo Ashiata Shiemash, e como Belzebu havia então cumprido uma certa necessidade em conexão com sua missão, o…
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B55
B54 <=> B56 [BTG II Why in solar system, p. 55] Entre todos os passageiros a bordo da nave, um rapaz muito bonito se destacava; ele estava sempre perto do próprio Belzebu. Esse era Hassein, filho do filho favorito de Belzebu, Tooloof. Depois de voltar do exílio, Belzebu viu seu neto, Hassein, pela primeira vez…
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B56 B58 [BTG III Cause of delay in falling, p. 57] “In view of the sharp distinction in the alternatives before us, I cannot myself decide what to do, and so I have ventured to trouble you, your Right Reverence, for your competent advice.” The captain having finished speaking, Beelzebub thought a little and then…
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B57 B59 [BTG III Cause of delay in falling, p. 58] “The only question is, which of the alternatives you mentioned should be chosen – that is, to wait somewhere or to add to our journey by a ‘detour.’ “You say that to make a detour will greatly lengthen our journey but that waiting will…
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B58 B60 [BTG III Cause of delay in falling, p. 59] “But now go and make all arrangements necessary for the required stopping. And then, when you are quite free, come to me again and we will pass the time of our unavoidable delay in conversation useful for us all.” When the captain had gone,…
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B59 B61 [BTG III Cause of delay in falling, p. 60] “I am not glad because of the misadventure but because an unforeseen event issuing from above has occurred, owing to which we shall be able to listen once more to the tales of my dear grandfather. “Is it my fault that the circumstances are…
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B60 B62 [BTG III Cause of delay in falling, p. 61] “Certainly, my boy, on each separate planet of that solar system also, the planetary bodies of the three-brained beings are coated and take an exterior form in conformity with the nature of the given planet, and are adapted in their details to the surrounding…
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B62
B61 B63 [BTG III Cause of delay in falling, p. 62] “There are three apertures in the upper sphere, opening outwards; two serve for sight and the third for hearing. “The other, the lower sphere, has only two apertures: one in front for taking in the first and second being-foods, and the other at the…