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

took as our guide an employee of a branch of some bank that was connectedwith this slaughterhouse, and set off with him on a tour of inspection."First of all we went through the yards into which the unfortunatequadruped beings are driven and where they are kept until they areslaughtered."These yards were no different from those of other establishments of thesame kind on your planet, except that they were on a considerably largerscale On the other hand, they were much dirtier than any I had seen in othercountries."Afterward we went through several what are called 'annexes.' One ofthem was the cold storage for the meat that was ready, in another theydestroyed the existence of quadruped beings simply with sledgehammers, andalso skinned them—exactly as is done in other slaughterhouses."By the way, in passing through this last annex it occurred to me that thiswas probably the place where they slaughtered cattle intended especially forthe Jews, who, as I already knew, were obliged by the code of their religionto destroy quadruped beings in a special way."Walking through all these annexes took rather a long time, and I keptwaiting for the moment when we would finally reach the section I had heardso much about, and which I was determined to see."But when I told our guide that I wished to hurry on to that section, Ilearned that we had already seen everything there was to be seen in thisfamous Chicago slaughterhouse, and that there were no other sections."Nowhere, my dear boy, had I laid eyes on a single machine, with theexception of the rollers on rails which all slaughterhouses use for moving theheavy carcasses, and as for the filth in this Chicago slaughterhouse, I hadseen more than enough."In cleanliness and general organization, the slaughterhouse of the city ofTiflis, which I had seen two years before,