Study of Beelzebub's Tales

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Veroonk

 

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“And that tall man pretending to be an important gentleman, sitting alone in the corner, making eyes at a lady who sits with her husband among the neighboring company… is he not a real ‘Veroonk’?

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“And these waiters, exactly like dogs with their tails between their legs, who serve the people sitting there… are they not ‘Asklay-slaves’?

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“And in their majestic city Babylon, where I also happened to be, many of their centuries later… was it not the same there? Were not the three-brained beings of the city Babylon those same Asklays, Kafirians, Veroonks, Klians, and so on?…

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“Only their dress and the names of their nationalities have changed.

“During Babylonian times they were called ‘Assyrians,’ ‘Persians,’ ‘Sikitians,’ ‘Aravians,’ and by other different names ending in ‘ian.’