Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

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34 Russia

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“And when later, in that hall where the celebrated presentation took place, he further showed and directed my presence… about this we can neither speak now in the language of a Scheherazade, nor describe it with the pen of a Mr. Canineson.

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“In the hall every movement, every step I made, even to the blinking of my eyelids, were seen in advance, and prompted to me by this important general.