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

even the 'desire' for what is called 'objective-being Being.'"The manifestations of the aforementioned vietroooretznel in relation tomy person began, on the very next morning, to have their action, in the sensethat all the data for being-notions about my personality, which had previouslybeen firmly fixed in the presences of beings who knew me, changed abruptlyfor no other reason than this objectively maleficent 'official presentation' ofmine to their highest 'power-possessing being '"Their notions about my personal significance, as well as about all myqualities and merits, were suddenly transformed for their individuality, for allof them I suddenly became 'important,' 'wise,' 'extraordinary,' 'interesting,' andso on and so forth, that is, the possessor of all kinds of fantastic beingqualitiesof their own invention."To illustrate what I have just said, the following characteristic examplesmay serve."The proprietor of the shop where I usually bought the provisions for mykitchen before attending to my business insisted, the first morning after this'royal audience' of mine, on bringing the purchases to my house himself. Allthe policemen standing at the street corners in the district where I was living,who already knew me as a foreign physician, began saluting at the sight of meeven while still some way off, just as if I were one of their most importantgenerals."The same evening the chief of the department where I had first appliedpersonally brought to my house that miserable permit giving me the right tohave my own laboratory, for which I had languished for three months on thedoorsteps of every kind of 'official' and 'unofficial' establishment. And on thenext day I received four more permits for the same purpose from variousdepartments of other ministries that had no authority at all to issue suchpermits but where, on account of this dilly-dallying of theirs, I had appliedduring my senseless perambulations.