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CHAPTER 30ArtA THIS PLACE in his tales, Beelzebub became silent. Then turning suddenly <strong>to</strong>his old servant Ahoon, who was sitting there listening as attentively as hisgrandson Hassein, Beelzebub said:"What's this, old man! Are you really listening <strong>to</strong> me with as much interestas our Hassein? Weren't you there yourself, and didn't you go with meeverywhere on that planet Earth, and didn't you see with your own eyes andsense for yourself everything I am telling him about?"Instead of just sitting there open-mouthed at my tales, why don't you alsotell our favorite something? There is no getting out of it. Since those strangethree-brained beings interest him so greatly, we have <strong>to</strong> tell him all we canabout them."Surely something or other about those freaks must have struck you . .well, whatever it was, tell us about that."On hearing these words, Ahoon thought a little and replied."After your subtly psychological tales about all these muddle-heads, whatcan I add with my s<strong>to</strong>ries?"But then, with unaccus<strong>to</strong>med seriousness and borrowing the style and evenentire expressions of Beelzebub himself, he went on:"Well now . . How shall I put it? My essence was often thrown off balance<strong>by</strong> those strange three-brained beings, and their foolish capers nearly alwaysevoked the being-impulse of amazement in one or another of my spiritualizedparts."And then addressing Hassein, he said:

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