Tag: pássaros
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B974
B973 B975 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 974] “’Ekh, Brother! Here on the Earth if you speak the truth you’re a great fool, whereas if you wriggle with your soul you are only a “scoundrel,” though also a big one. So it is best of all to do nothing, but just recline on your…
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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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B1011
B1010 B1012 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 1011] “’And even this one surviving good custom is either already fading completely out of the ordinary life of the followers of this religion, or its observance is so changing year by year that no shock is obtained from it for the fasters, though it was just…
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B1015
B1014 B1016 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 1015] “’”These names of theirs are not just names, but real music. Can one really compare the sounds of the music invented there by various Beethovenings and Chopinings, and other fashionable triflers, with the sounds of the names of these blessed fishes? “’”Every time we hear the…
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B1039
B1038 B1040 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 1039] “The same day an hour after the pupils were sent home, one of what are called the ‘porters’ of the institute happened to find in the ‘woodshed’ that two as yet undeveloped growing future mothers were hanging by ropes fastened to the beams. “In Mary’s pocket…
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B41
B40 B42 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 41] Please, reader, do not worry . . . I shall of course also write of the Earth, but with such an impartial attitude that this comparatively small planet itself and also everything on it shall correspond to that place which in fact it occupies and…
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B68
B67 B69 [BTG IV The law of falling, p. 68] “I myself, your Right Reverence, was present at the first trials made by Saint Venoma according to the principles he had discovered. “The whole secret lay in this, that when the rays of ‘Elekilpomagtistzen’ were made to pass through this special glass, then in all…
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B92
B91 B93 [BTG X Why “men” are not men, p. 92] “Had it not been for this strange peculiarity of theirs, then it would never have entered anybody’s head that there was anything ‘queer’ on that planet. “During the period to which the aforesaid refers, I visited most of the planets of that solar system,…
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B111
B110 B112 [BTG XV First descent upon Earth, p. 111] “In this same city the head of this large community existed who was called ‘King Appolis.’ “And it was with just this same King Appolis that our young, inexperienced countryman had become involved. “And it was in this city of ‘Samlios’ itself that I learned…
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B868
B867 B869 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 868] “The history of the constatation of the existence there on your planet of this sound is as follows: “It was first discovered by that learned member of the society Akhaldan which existed on the continent Atlantis, who was a progenitor of these same learned twin brothers and who,…
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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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B922
B921 B923 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 922] “So I set off there on the next day. “As the ‘automobile taxi’ in which I drove to this place happened not to come from one of Mr. Ford’s factories, I arrived too soon, and consequently this ‘Mister’ was not yet there. “While awaiting him, I…
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B924
B923 B925 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 924] “First of all, there must be prepared, according to any old recipe, already familiar to specialists in the business, a thousand bottles of liquid; precisely one thousand bottles must be prepared, because if there should be merely one bottle more or one bottle less, the incantation…
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B925
B924 B926 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 925] “Then both doors of the kitchen must be opened wide, or, if there is only one door, a window must be opened wide, and, while the incantation is very loudly pronounced a chicken must be chased through the kitchen at full speed. “Upon this, a most…
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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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B928
B927 B929 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 928] “In short, my boy, the same is being repeated on this continent America as also took place quite recently in the large community called Russia. There the power-possessing responsible beings also prohibited the consumption of the famous ‘Russian vodka’ with the consequence that these beings very…
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B929
B928 B930 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 929] “Well then, sitting in the said restaurant with this famous orangeade and watching the passers-by in the hope of seeing among them the Mister I awaited, I began casually looking around at the objects in the restaurant also. “On the table at which I was sitting,…
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B931
B930 B932 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 931] “Then having lighted his ‘dwarf stove’ he put the frying pan on it; and still moving ponderously, he then went over to one of the many cupboards, took from it a tin of some canned food, opened it, and emptied its contents into the said frying…
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B119
B118 B120 [BTG XV First descent upon Earth, p. 119] “It is extremely interesting to notice here one exceedingly astonishing and incomprehensible fact. “And that is that during their later revolutions of this kind, almost all the three-brained beings there or at least the overwhelming majority who begin to fall into such a ‘psychosis,’ always…