Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

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Koorfooristanian

 

40 Beelzebub Tells How People Learned and Again Forgot About the Fundamental Cosmic Law of Heptaparaparshinokh

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“And now among them, this branch under the name of the ‘theory of the law of vibrations’ exists there, as our wise teacher Mullah Nassr Eddin would say, ‘in clover.’

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“About the given case I still remember and willy-nilly cannot help expressing aloud that wise formulation of our always esteemed Mullah Nassr Eddin, which expression he has in the following words:

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“‘Ekh… you, Koorfooristanian pantaloons, isn’t it all the same to you whether you have a mule or a hare for your farm work? Haven’t both of these animals four legs?’