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Ambrose Bierce

The Ashes of Madame Blavatsky

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The two brightest lights of Theosophy being in the same place at once in company with the Ashes of Madame Blavatsky, an Inquiring Soul thought the time propitious to learn something worth while. So he sat at the feet of one awhile, and then he sat awhile at the feet of the other, and at last he applied his ear to the keyhole of the casket containing the Ashes of Madame Blavatsky. When the Inquiring Soul had completed his course of instruction he declared himself the Ahkoond of Swat, fell into the baleful habit of standing on his head, and swore that the mother who bore him was a pragmatic paralogism. Wherefore he was held in high reverence, and when the two other gentlemen were hanged for lying the Theosophists elected him to the leadership of their Disastral Body, and after a quiet life and an honourable death by the kick of a jackass he was reincarnated as a Yellow Dog. As such he ate the Ashes of Madame Blavatsky, and Theosophy was no more.

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Autor
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) · Wikidata Q191050
Título
The Ashes of Madame Blavatsky
Lengua
inglés
Forma
Fábula cínica
Colección
Fantastic Fables (1899)
Fuente
Project Gutenberg #374 — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/374/pg374.txt (transcripción de la ed. G. P. Putnam's Sons, Nueva York, «The Knickerbocker Press», 1899)
Nota
Fábula cínica. Bierce vacía la fábula esópica de su moraleja y la llena de interés propio.
Sala
La Prosa Breve
Identificador
the-ashes-of-madame-blavatsky--bierce
Cita recomendada
Ambrose Bierce, «The Ashes of Madame Blavatsky», Poetósfera, poetosfera.com/p/the-ashes-of-madame-blavatsky--bierce.html

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