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His perplexing "toasts to the idiots" constituting a whimsical, inexplicable sort of human typology—were introduced to his semi ritualistic dinners. The floors of the little apartment groaned from the number of pupils who crowded in, some standing heron-like on one leg just to fit side by side against the walls. |
His perplexing "toasts to the idiots" constituting a whimsical, inexplicable sort of human typology—were introduced to his semi ritualistic dinners. The floors of the little apartment groaned from the number of pupils who crowded in, some standing heron-like on one leg just to fit side by side against the walls. |
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| − | Его ошеломляющие «тосты за идиотов», составляющие причудливый, необъяснимый вид человеческой типологии, были представлены на его полуритуальных обедах. Пол небольшой квартиры скрипел под тяжестью собравшихся учеников, некоторые из них стояли, подобно цаплям на одной ноге, чтобы только уместиться вдоль стены. |
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But Gurdjieff insisted on numerous toasts—often his "toasts to the idiots" and keeping some self-possession despite the effects of many high-octane toasts was one of the exercises of the evening. Everyone was jocularly toasted as some kind of "idiot" according to a "science of idiotism". Gurdjieff was perfectly aware of the absurd of the process, and he reveled in it. The term "idiot" retained its obvious mockery, but, as James Moore put it, Gurdjieff "reinvested it with the meaning of individuality (from a Greek root meaning 'I make my own.')" Each student was required to choose their own level of "idiocy"- there was the ordinary idiot, the super idiot, the arch idiot, the hopeless idiot, the compassionate idiot, the squirming idiot, the square idiot, the round idiot, the zigzag idiot, the "enlightened" idiot, the doubting idiot, the swaggering idiot. Toasts were made to this or that kind of "idiot" each with its vile or benign characteristics—and Gurdjieff himself was the "arch idiot". The idiot toasts—which died with Gurdjieff, since they were distinctive to his sense of humor and fully understood only by him—reminded the toasters to be skeptical about themselves, to see themselves with an objectivity peculiar to this whimsical typology. |
But Gurdjieff insisted on numerous toasts—often his "toasts to the idiots" and keeping some self-possession despite the effects of many high-octane toasts was one of the exercises of the evening. Everyone was jocularly toasted as some kind of "idiot" according to a "science of idiotism". Gurdjieff was perfectly aware of the absurd of the process, and he reveled in it. The term "idiot" retained its obvious mockery, but, as James Moore put it, Gurdjieff "reinvested it with the meaning of individuality (from a Greek root meaning 'I make my own.')" Each student was required to choose their own level of "idiocy"- there was the ordinary idiot, the super idiot, the arch idiot, the hopeless idiot, the compassionate idiot, the squirming idiot, the square idiot, the round idiot, the zigzag idiot, the "enlightened" idiot, the doubting idiot, the swaggering idiot. Toasts were made to this or that kind of "idiot" each with its vile or benign characteristics—and Gurdjieff himself was the "arch idiot". The idiot toasts—which died with Gurdjieff, since they were distinctive to his sense of humor and fully understood only by him—reminded the toasters to be skeptical about themselves, to see themselves with an objectivity peculiar to this whimsical typology. |
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