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

of this North America, I experienced great difficulty in making myselfunderstood because, as it turned out, although these beings use English forverbal intercourse among themselves, this 'English' of theirs is rather specialand in fact quite peculiar."So, having experienced this difficulty, I made up my mind to learn thispeculiar 'conversational English' of theirs."On the third day after my arrival, I was on my way to ask the Mister I hadJust met to recommend a teacher for this 'English language,' when I suddenlysaw, reflected in the sky by projectors, an 'American advertisement' with thewords:SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES BY THE SYSTEM OF MISTERCHATTERLITZ13 North 293rd Street"The languages that were taught and the time it would take to learn eachone were set forth As regards the 'American English language,' it was statedin particular that this could be learned in from five minutes to twenty-fourhours."At first I could not make head or tail of it, but all the same I decided to gothe next morning to the address indicated."On the following day, when I found this Mr Chatterlitz, he received me inperson, and when he heard that I wished to learn the 'American Englishlanguage' by his system, he explained to me first of all that this conversationallanguage could be learned in three forms, each form corresponding to somespecial requirement." 'The first form,' he said, 'teaches the conversational language to a manwho is absolutely obliged to earn our American dollars.'The second form is suitable for a man who, although not in need of ourdollars, nevertheless likes to do "dollar business," and in his social relationswith us Americans likes