Tag: pássaros

  • B153

    B152 B154 [BTG XVIII The Arch-preposterous, p. 153] ’When we were nearer the said special and very strange construction, he pointed to it with a particular feather of his right wing and said: “’This special appliance is the principal part of the whole of my new invention; and it is just in this that the…

  • B155

    B154 B156 [BTG XVIII The Arch-preposterous, p. 155] “It is interesting to note that your favorites also have something like this ‘Lifechakan’ or ‘Krhrrhihirhi’; and they name such an apparatus a ‘dynamo.’ “There was also there, apart, another independent large appliance which as it afterwards appeared, was a ‘Soloohnorahoona’ of special construction, or as your…

  • B164

    B163 B165 [BTG XVIII The Arch-preposterous, p. 164] “At first, what is called my ‘initiative-of-constatation’ proceeded in the usual way, that is, according to what is called the ‘center-of-gravity-of-associative-experiencing,’ but later, when this initiative-of-constatation of everything proceeding in me gradually and almost imperceptibly became the function of my essence alone, the latter not only became…

  • B580

    B579 B581 [BTG XXXIII Beelzebub as hypnotist, p. 580] “It cannot be denied that, as I have already told you, it is possible to bring them into such a psychic state by making them fix their gaze on a brilliant or bright object, but not all beings there, not by a long way, the reason…

  • B598

    B597 B599 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 598] “When the said cavalcade had moved off a long way, Mullah first of all uttering his favorite saying: ‘So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be,’ and having also uttered his favorite exclamation, somewhat resembling ‘Zrrt!!,’ he returned to his place and suggested to me that I should do the same, then, having arranged…

  • B599

    B598 B600 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 599] “He developed this thought of his in a long dissertation thus: ‘If we analyze impartially and sum up statistically this understanding and picturing which obtain among people of the contemporary civilization concerning the races which populate Europe, in contradistinction to other continents, and make an analogy between these…

  • B600

    B599 B601 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 600] “’These Russians moreover correspond ideally to this peculiar bird turkey, as the following considerations of mine show: “’Arising and being formed on the continent Asia, but chiefly owing to a clean heredity, organic as well as psychic, forged in the course of many centuries in conditions of existence…

  • B601

    B600 B602 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 601] “Here, my boy, while giving the subtlety of the psychological analysis of our most wise Mullah Nassr Eddin its due, justice demands that it should be said that if these Russians have become such exemplary turkeys, we have, in this case, to blame it only once more on…

  • B610

    B609 B611 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 610] “It is further also necessary to tell you here that when from among these learned beings of ‘new format’ some become power-possessing and happen to take up important responsible posts in the process of ordinary existence, they then often serve much more as the sources of every kind…

  • B624

    B623 B625 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 624] “I will explain to you somewhat later how they represent to themselves this famous freedom of theirs, and now I will only tell you that that feeling which arises from the action of Solioonensius strengthens in them the need for some or other general change in the conditions…

  • B180

    B179 B181 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 180] “’And we descended,’ His Conformity continued, ‘because although we had then taken every possible measure and had assured everybody that everything would be quite all right, we ourselves were nevertheless not categorically convinced that no unexpectedness might occur there unforeseen. “’Our apprehensions were justified, although, “Thanks-to-Chance,”…

  • B183

    B182 B184 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 183] “’For the normal formation of the atmosphere of the newly arisen planet Moon, the said surplus of the Sacred Askokin has already begun seriously to hinder the correct exchange of matters between the planet Moon itself and its atmosphere, and the apprehension has already arisen that…

  • B189

    B188 B190 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 189] “With the same aim, these favorites of yours of that period even divided the beings of all other forms into ‘clean’ and ‘unclean.’ “’Unclean,’ they called those forms of being, the destruction of whose existence was presumably not pleasing to their gods; and ‘clean,’ those beings,…

  • B202

    B201 B203 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 202] “Thereafter fragments from his speech began to be spread among those who had not personally heard it. “It is interesting to notice, that it was the custom then, for priests to exist simply on the offerings of their parishioners, and this priest Abdil had also been…

  • B210

    B209 B211 [BTG XX Beelzebub’s third flight, p. 210] “That country was at that time indeed so excellent and so ‘Sooptaninalnian’ for ordinary being-existence, that no being who could think at all could help liking it. “On that ‘terra firma’ part of the surface of your planet, not only did there exist at that period…

  • B214

    B213 B215 [BTG XX Beelzebub’s third flight, p. 214] “For instance, a crow would appear to them to be a peacock; a trough of water, a sea; a harsh clatter, music; good will, enmity; insults, love; and so on and so forth. “When King Konuzion became clearly convinced of all this, he immediately dispatched everywhere…

  • B1085

    B1084 B1086 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1085] “The first half, however, of this word was not taken from the ancient Greek as was usually done, but from the what is called ‘Russian language,’ namely, they took the Russian word ‘plut’ – in Russian ‘plut’ means ‘rogue’ – and in this way obtained…

  • B1086

    B1085 B1087 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1086] “Namely, he said: ‘Isn’t it all one to the poor flies how they are killed? By a kick of the hooves of horned devils, or by a stroke of the beautiful wings of divine angels?’ “And concerning those types there whom all others called democrats,…

  • B1090

    B1089 B1091 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1090] “’The kazi are the same everywhere, only their names are different. In Persia they are called Persian, in Turkey, Turkish. “’And that is just as it is everywhere on Earth; donkeys are alike, they are only differently called. “’For instance, the species of donkey breeding…

  • B1105

    B1104 B1106 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1105] “During that said period, not only did their rate of ‘mortality’ begin to decline, but what they call their birth rate also began to decline. “Their birth rate declined because, when the three-brained beings there were already existing more or less as is becoming to…