Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

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Kalkians

 

12 The First “Growl”

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“In short, owing to the strangeness of their psyche, it has gradually come about there that even at the present time, when this writer’s ‘Gospel’ has been long forgotten, his name is known almost everywhere as that of an ‘excellent writer.’

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“Anything he writes now, they all seize upon and regard as full of indisputable truth.

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“Everybody today looks upon his writings with the same veneration with which the ancient Kalkians there listened to the predictions of their sacred ‘Pythoness.’