By Julius Evola
In what many deliberate to be his masterwork, Evola contrasts the features of the fashionable international with these of conventional societies, from politics and associations to perspectives on lifestyles and demise.
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Beelzebub, who, as everyone realizes, has means and knowledge enough and to spare. Hold on, old fellow! Joking, even philosophical joking, aside, it seems that with all these digressions, you have violated one of the chief principles that you had made the basis of the system you planned for actualizing your dreams through this new profession: the principle to remember and always take into account the weakening of the function of 40 BEELZEBUB'S TALES TO HIS GRANDSON thinking in the contemporary reader, and not to fatigue him with the perception of numerous ideas over a short period of time.
Thereupon the salesman, putting on the "oleaginous" face proper to all salesmen, replied that indeed the book cost only forty-five kopecks, but had to be sold for sixty because fifteen kopecks were added for postage. At this reply our Russian merchant was greatly perplexed by these two quite contradictory but obviously reconcilable facts, and something visibly began to proceed in him; and gazing up at the ceiling he again began to ponder, this time 34 BEELZEBUB'S TALES TO HIS GRANDSON like an English professor who has just invented a capsule for castor oil; then, suddenly turning to his friend, he delivered himself for the first time on Earth of the verbal formulation which, expressing in its essence an indubitable objective truth, has since assumed the character of a proverb.
46 BEELZEBUB'S TALES TO HIS GRANDSON Well now, patient reader, I must really conclude this opening chapter. It has only to be signed. He who ... Stop! Misconceived formulation! With a signature there must be no joking. Otherwise the same thing will happen to you as happened once before in one of the countries of Central Europe, when you were forced to pay ten years' rent for a house you occupied for only three months, simply because you had signed a paper obliging you to renew the lease for the house each year.