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

Then Ahoon, again imitating the style of Beelzebub and even his veryintonation, began to relate as follows:"This misadventure of mine occurred in the following circumstances:"During this sixth visit of ours to the planet Earth, toward the very end wehad to exist for a while in the capital of those German beings who, as HisRight Reverence deigned to say, invented this 'accursed' word 'doctor.'"In the hotel where we had our place of residence, next to my room or, asis said, in the 'number' next to mine, there existed two very agreeable beingswho had only recently celebrated the sacrament of the union of the active withthe passive for the purpose of serving the great all-universaltrogoautoegocratic process by the continuation of their species or, as yourfavorites would say, they had not been 'married' long and were still considered'newlyweds.'"Well, by chance, I became acquainted with this young couple in the houseof some friends of mine, and after that they often invited me to their room forwhat is called a 'cup of tea', and sometimes I even used to drop in on themwithout being invited, in order to shorten the wearisome German evenings"The passive half of this couple was, as is said there, in an 'interestingcondition ' She was expecting her 'first-born.'"Like myself, they were in the capital for an indefinite period, for reasonsconnected with the profession of the active half of this young couple and, as Isaid, were staying in the same hotel that we were."His profession, by the way, was highly original, even according to thenotions of the beings of this incomparable planet He was famous in his owncountry as one of the best specialists in the art of adorning the faces of hisclients with the 'scars' so dear to the students of German universities."One day I heard a nervous rapping on the wall of my room