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Good and Evil in Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, Part VI: Lentrohamsanin
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Good and Evil in Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, Part VI: Lentrohamsanin

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Aug 04, 2021
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 Part VI of a seven-part series

Лентро Хамсанин, phonetically, Lentrohamsanin.  

The phonemes for this character are composed of fragments of Lenin, Trotsky, and xamca,  which means “anchovy” in Tajik. We can suppose Gurdjieff may be indicating that the character’s propositions “taste fishy.” 

Lentrohamsanin is said to have had an inner “double center of g…

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