Part 12 (2/2)

A conversation on another planet about the earth a thousand years hence. ”Do you remember that white tree?”

Anakhthema!

Zigzagovsky, Oslizin, Svintchulka, Derbaliguin.

A woman with money, the money hidden everywhere, in her bosom and between her legs....

All that procedure.

Treat your dismissal as you would an atmospheric phenomenon.

A conversation at a conference of doctors. First doctor: ”All diseases can be cured by salt.” Second doctor, military: ”Every disease can be cured by prescribing no salt.” The first points to his wife, the second to his daughter.

The mother has ideals, the father too; they delivered lectures; they built schools, museums, etc. They grow rich. And their children are most ordinary; spend money, gamble on the Stock Exchange.

N. married a German when she was seventeen. He took her to live in Berlin. At forty she became a widow and by that time spoke Russian badly and German badly.

The husband and wife loved having visitors, because, when there were no visitors they quarreled.

It is an absurdity! It is an anachronism!

”Shut the window! You are perspiring! Put on an overcoat! Put on goloshes!”

If you wish to have little spare time, do nothing.

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