Beelzebubs-Tales-to-His-Grandson-by-G-I-Gurdjieff

king abandoned his craze concerning those terrestrial learned beings."As I learned on joining the club, all the members present on the opening dayhad organized a 'general meeting,' at which it had been unanimously decidedto hold a daily general meeting for reports and discussions dealing exclusivelywith the two following questions first, 'What measures should be taken by themembers of the club on their return home in order to collect all thelegomonisms existing in their native lands and to place them at the disposal ofthe learned members of the club?' and second, 'What is to be done in orderthat the legomonisms might be transmitted to remote generations by someother means than through initiates alone?'"Before my enrollment as a member, there had already been a great varietyof reports and discussions concerning those two questions at their generalmeetings, and on the day of my admission a great deal was said on thequestion of how to attract, for the fundamental task of the club, theparticipation of initiated beings from among the followers of various 'paths,'who were then known as 'onandjiki,' 'shamanists,' 'Buddhists,' and so on."Well then, it was on the third day after I became a member of this clubthat there was uttered for the first time that word which has chanced to reachcontemporary beings there and which has become one of the potent factors inthe final atrophy of all the data still surviving in them for more or less normallogical being-mentation, namely, the word 'art,' which then had quite anothermeaning and referred to an entirely different idea."On that day when the word 'art' was uttered for the first time and itsunderlying idea and exact meaning were established, there was listed amongthe speakers a Chaldean