Tag: absurdo
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B224
B223 B225 [BTG XX Beelzebub’s third flight, p. 224] “And at times if the offended one had greater physical strength, and an important power-possessing being with whom he was not on very good terms was not watching him, he would simply maul the offender as the Russian Sidor once mauled his favorite goat. “Very well…
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B230
B229 B231 [BTG XXI First visit to India, p. 230] “The history of the arising of this third group of Asiatic beings begins only a little later than that period when the families of hunters for Pirmarals first came to the shores of the Sea of Beneficence from the continent Atlantis and, having settled there,…
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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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B506
B505 B507 [BTG XXX Art, p. 506] “And why these contemporary theaters of theirs with their contemporary actors have become useful for improving the quality of their sleep was due to the following circumstances. “After the need to actualize being-Partkdolg-duty in themselves had entirely disappeared from the presences of most of them, and every kind…
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Abdil
in the Being of this priest the function called conscience had not yet been quite atrophied in him B187 ff; and B190 Beelzebub explained to his friend frankly the utter stupidity and absurdity of the custom of Sacrificial-Offerings B191 ff. instead of delivering the usual sermon he began speaking about Sacrificial-Offerings B201 ff. Beelzebub gave…
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Angels
His Truthfulness, the Archangel Gabriel B28 Archangel Adossia, President of the Commission of Inspection, announces the construction of the new ship invented by Archangel Hariton for intersystem arid interplanetary communication, from B68 ff The Most High Commission consisting of Angels and Archangels, specialists in the work of World-creation and World-maintenance, under the direction of the…
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fantastic absurdities
“And as regards the remaining terrestrial three-brained beings, who by the way in general represent in themselves the majority, then they, becoming usually transformed at the corresponding age — owing to many causes, but chiefly because already from the earliest years of their existence it became proper to them to occupy themselves with what is…
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B317
B316 B318 [BTG XXIV Beelzebub’s fifth flight, p. 317] “Bear in mind also, that during the abnormal winds of that time, besides the countries mentioned, several other smallish terra firma spaces of the surface of that hapless planet were also covered by sands. “It is interesting to note here that your contemporary favorites have also…
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B562
B561 B563 [BTG XXXII Hypnotism, p. 562] “The more the learned beings of recent times of this peculiar planet are themselves personally, in the sense of ‘idiotism,’ ‘squared,’ the more they criticize Mesmer and say or write concerning him every possible kind of absurdity to bring him into contempt. “And in doing this, they criticize…
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Sacrificial-Offerings
“Before telling you more about this priest Abdil, I must make clear to your Reason, that there on the continent of Ashhark, the mentioned terrible custom of Sacrificial-Offerings was at that time, as it is said, at its ‘height’, and the destruction of various weak one-brained and two-brained beings proceeded everywhere in incalculable numbers. BTG…
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B1237
B1236 B1238 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1237] This old Calvados, by the way, twenty-seven bottles of it, I was thought worthy to find, accidentally covered over with a mixture of lime, sand, and finely chopped straw, several years ago when I was digging a pit for preserving carrots for the winter in one…
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B1024
B1023 B1025 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 1024] “The disease which the Great Moses devoted half his existence to eradicating from among children, a host of your contemporary favorites of responsible age have, almost deliberately, resurrected again and spread not only among children and the general mass of adults but also even among the…
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psyche
that being-impulse, Objective-Conscience, on which the whole psyche of beings is in general based B359 the beings of this place on the planet Earth were also born and were again destroyed; and the general level of the psyche of this kind of Earth-beings was thereby changed, of course at times for the better, at time…
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B57
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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B95
B94 B96 [BTG XI A piquant trait, p. 95] “To be sure, it was only in childish naivete that you called them so; but the three-brained beings of that peculiar planet, especially the contemporary ones, do not discriminate such fine points. “Who called them, why, and in what circumstances – it’s all one. They have…
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B141
B140 <=> B142 [BTG XVII The Arch-absurd, p. 141] “E essa lei cósmica é que, em cada surgimento, grande ou pequeno, quando em contato direto com as emanações do próprio Sol Absoluto ou de qualquer outro sol, ocorre o que é chamado de ‘Remorso’, ou seja, um processo em que cada parte que surgiu dos…
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B926
B925 B927 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 926] “Namely, every hostess, rolling her eyes to heaven and pointing to the chicken, would say with great feeling that it was the ‘famous Pamir pheasant’ and that it had been specially sent to them from Pamir by their dear nephew who resided there as consul for…
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B132
B131 <=> B133 [BTG XVI Relative understanding time, p. 132] “Agora você entende, meu rapaz, que até mesmo o Grandíssimo Heropass do Tempo também foi compelido a realizar absurdos óbvios na presença desses infelizes seres tricerebrais que surgem e existem neste malfadado planeta Terra. “E graças a tudo o que acabei de explicar, você pode…
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B134
B133 <=> B135 [BTG XVII The Arch-absurd, p. 134] Chapter XVII The Arch-absurd. According to the Assertion of Beelzebub, Our Sun Neither Lights nor Heats (resumo) “PARA QUE, meu caro Hassein, você possa, nesse meio tempo, ter uma representação aproximada de até que ponto essa função chamada ‘percepção instintiva da realidade’, que é própria de…