JAROSLAV HAŠEK (1883 – 1923) Czech author in 1911 created a celebrated Sheikh Among others: Good soldier Schweik and another peculiar stories, The Adventures of a Good Warrior of Schweik and Moderate advancement organization (In the Borders of the Law). An anthem, dissiders, a program, postulates...
HISTORY OF THE organization OF THE MEASURED POST
(FOR THE BORDER OF THE RIGHT)
Persecuting the First Christians in Vinograds, pp. 34-36
Mr. Cinderella came to our headquarters. He was a very devout man, not covering up for just being despised. For we were not besides devout of the kind Lord God, and Mr. Kopytko considered it his sacred work to stand up for God in the tenth cup of beer. So we called him “the first Christian in the Royal Vinograds.” Confused in his hawelok, he was conceited and silent – so the early Christians entered ancient osteria, filled with Roman acorns. And erstwhile he lifted up a pint of beer in this godless atmosphere, he did so with specified a service, as if in St Peter's day he were raising the cyborium. in catacombs. The highest sign of his scurrying contempt was erstwhile he went out and cried toward our table: - Then with God!
respective times we tried to take distant his God from him, but he always turned his head with blunt resignation and said, "This is all for nothing, tell yourselves what you want. In this faith, in which I was born, I will besides die. He besides sometimes said, "In this religion I sucked with my mother's milk...
He was a gravedigger by profession, and most likely this was the effect on the piety of his thoughts, although he did not talk about these last things of the man with due piety, telling: "It was you who had the work again before m1 managed to shove this old female into the coffin today. – His piety did not prevent him from playing cards passionately.
So 1 day on Saturday, erstwhile we were playing the eye, he asked us to join him. First he was lucky, due to the fact that at the beginning of the game he got distant with it. But then his card turned around and lost his full weekly salary. With a vague hunch that if he kept playing, he would have played, asked us if we could lend him 5 crowns to play on. So with our 5 crowns against us.
– With the top pleasure, dear friend – we told him – but you will give us a watch and declare that you do not believe in God. There were 5 crowns in the bank.
1 of the large spiritual fights played in Mr. Kopyta's soul.
Certainly, Nero’s Christians had akin features erstwhile they were about to declare that they renounce their God.
Never!
Then we play without you!
It meant about as much as in Rome as the emperor shouted, "Throw him to the beasts!"
There were signs of suffering, cruel, terrible fighting on Cinderella's face.
alternatively of predators in the circus, he saw in his soul the image of his wife.
– Gentlemen – he said suddenly, giving us the watch – so I do not believe in God!
He was given 5 crowns and cried: erstwhile he received the card, "And yet I believe in the Lord God, 5 crowns,
All of it!
He lost it. Then he shouted, "I don't believe in the Lord of God," and lent it for a wedding ringing from the owner of the premises 10 crowns, after which he lost them with a shout: “There is inactive God in the world!” Then he pawned his coat and yet his wife came for him.
The following Sunday he went to repent on Holy Mountain and brought the owner of the place a rosary.
Government Wheel Repressions towards the fresh Party, p. 37-40
erstwhile Mr. Kopytko returned from Holy Mountain, he went and denounced us at the police, where he declared that we were playing forbidden games, we talk sick of the Lord God and the mighty of this and that world. Mr. Markup has been sitting between us always since. Who was Markup? He's a good man. Officer of the police station. He had a tiny wage and six children. In those days, erstwhile it was gathering in Prague for a large storm over universal electoral law, people like him were moonlighting, making reports to superiors who continued to hand them over to the state police in Vienna. Besides, it was after His Majesty visited Prague. Mr. Markup would love to gain something. Chateaubriand already said the police are always romantic. And erstwhile Kopytko in the safety department declared that he couldn't stand these conversations at our inn anymore, they sent Mr. Markup there. I don't care if he's the father of six children. erstwhile the Commissioner asked Mr Kopytka, "What kind of people are these?" he replied, "They are villains, Mr. benefactor. And the father of six children went among these villains. A Roman legionary went to Britain to stand defender in the fog of a abroad island. And he thought nobody knew him. But he was known by the nephew of the police manager who sat with us, and he simply said erstwhile Mr Markup left the first evening: the first evening: the first evening: the first evening: – This is Markup. What he told us about him was pathetic. This man could easy be put in the mouth – he has six children and gets 2 royal crowns for each cheek. Besides, he gets a diet, or alternatively a nocturne, per 5 crowns for all visit to a sly baroque. That's how they pay him only 52 gold a month.
The next evening Mr. Markup came early from us and sat at our table with the face of a large innocent. erstwhile we arrived, he apologized for sitting at another table, but we asked him to stay calm due to the fact that we enjoyed his company. That we're talking about politics, but I don't think it's gonna bother him in any way. "So decided," said my friend Mahen, quietly, so that Mr Markup could hear. "Yes – I said – I make the last preparations." "Do they already know about this in Moravia?" – the Kun engineer leaned towards us. "The Seas already know everything," I said. Mr Markup moved: ,,I know, with permission, Moravia – he spoke. – Moravia is simply a country that has always stood by the Czech Republic.” "You're incorrect about that," I said. "But gentlemen – Mr Markup said – you know unless the Moravians fell under the Star." "It's something new," Opocensky said, "do you know that you're not allowed to talk about it? That you could make yourself look beautiful? For example, you would start talking about Emperor Ferdinand ...”
Mr Markup smiled nicely: – Do you think that Emperor Ferdinand was any extraordinary man?
“Surely,” I said seriously. – A man who could trample the head of the serpent of rebellion in 1620, He's surely worthy of worship. Especially if we think it belongs to the noble Habsburg dynasty.
– And yet, gentlemen – Mr Markup said – to have so many Czech gentlemen beheaded in the Old Town Square.
Do you regret it? I shouted wildly. – After all, it was a ridiculously mild punishment for those rebels who threw governors out of the windows of the royal Prague Castle, deposed their king: they appointed a Czech foreigner to the throne, their own king killed more than 20 OOO soldiers in battles. And you stand up for these people? Is that your Czech? Shame! I'm certain you'd start talking in a minute? about the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, to praise Kossuth that he was specified a swindler, and yet this rascal forged the banknotes and revolted all this riffraff against the Habsburg dynasty, and erstwhile he was called hanged, he ran away, the bastard! And now you come here calmly, and start defending Kossuth, and praise the Hungarian Revolution, and shout “let the revolution live!...
- But, gentlemen, I didn't say that.
I arose: – These gentlemen are witnesses that you said that. Didn't he, friends?
– Yes – everyone called – and worse things.
Mahen stood up: – You, Lord, slipped into this honest group to advance the slogan of treason, you blasphemed God at this table, where the sons of Catholic families themselves sit, exclaimed that you did not believe in God and mocked the infallibility of the pope, us, decent citizens, wanted to mislead, heresy and unbelief, and for that there is only 1 answer – the crime. Mr. Host, call the constable.
- But, gentlemen...
– No buts, a constable must state your identity and we will denounce you for insulting religion, insulting majesty, and all that, understood? Our motto is “To God, Homeland and King!” And you're trying to deprive us of that? You're not ashamed of yourself, specified an educated man!
The constable showed up.
- Constable, kindly state the identity of this gentleman. It speaks improperly of the Lord Almighty God, of the Pope, of the full dynasty, and corrupts us morally. He wants to make us anarchists, terrorists and blasphemers.
Mr. Markup got up and said calmly and seriously: – I am a police employee.
The police director's nephew picked up: – Man, you must be crazy! Show yourself! If only my mediocre uncle knew!
Mr. Markup began to search pockets and crushed declared: – I had to leave this card at home ...
And the nephew of the manager of the police approached the constable and showed his ID with that scary name, he said with dignity: "The manager of the police, your boss, is my uncle. – And pointing to the unfortunate Markup, he recommended: – Escort!
And while the dazzled Mr. Markup was escorting the constable, our noble sick man carried behind him: ,,They will never cast the religion of the Moradians, the father's inheritance save us, Lord!’
Mr. Markup no longer showed up between us due to the fact that he was transferred to the police directorate, to the regiment to dust the old files.
Treasurer of the Eduard Drobilek Party, pp. 65-67
All of these writers, who belong to our group, I must say, unfortunately, were incapable to cast on the balance of what the common man of the people, Eduard Drobilek, had thrown. The past was highly varied. Having lost his early parents, what a author with a known name, specified as myself, always counts as a varied past, starting writing a biography of a large man – he was alone in the stormy whirl of life and went on walking to his uncle 1 beautiful day, somewhere behind the Swan close Mielnik. And what happened to him on the way? Did he encounter adventure in the darkness of the night enclosing the valley of the Elbe, erstwhile the Elbe, having ascended from the shores at that time, roared, beating waves on the shores which she had not actually had, due to the fact that it had not yet been regulated? The small girl met the MP. “Where is it, please?” Drobilka asked the gendarmerie with this delicate sarcasm, to which they are only capable of gendarmes gathering a suspicious individual in the night. Gendarm considered Drobilk specified an individual, and Drobilek responded very kindly:
Where is your majesty going?
“I’m going to Neratovic,” replied the MP.
And that's a coincidence, 'cause I'm just going with Neratovic.
– Sir – said the MP – is Sezemski inactive an open inn?
You're going to the inn? – So you do not even respect the decree of the ministry of war, which the police officers are ordering to proceed day and night at the station and to reject all pleasance of the day, due to the fact that in these worldly delights there is simply a danger that duties will not be decently performed. For example, you asked me now if Sezemski was inactive open. You, sir, you don't know who I am, and I'm guessing you're not a gendarmerie, you're a disguised rogue. due to the fact that being an MP, you wouldn't be asking anyone at night on the road if there was an open inn. It would be your sacred work to ask me about the documents, and if I had not, arrest me and escort me to the nearest police station, there to draw up a protocol, and if it were found that I was a villain and a villain, you should hand me over to the nearest region court, where I would be tried for vagrantism. I'll file a complaint against you.
- But, gracious sir...
No gracious sir, I talk with you now as a friend. You know the Minister of civilian Defence?
I don't, sir.
Even worse for you. You don't know his last regulation of 1901, 12 May?
- No, sir.
– So you do not know this regulation, in which it stands, that erstwhile you meet a suspicious individual who you do not know, you should not only request papers from her, but besides ask: “How much money do you have with you?” And I would get my purse out, and I would say, I only have 2 playcars, which is strictly – according to the ministerial decree of 3 May 1900 – 4 halls. Of course, you besides do not know that everyone who travels here in Austria,
must have at least 4.50 crowns? And since I have only 4 halos on me, I deficiency 4 crowns of forty-six halos for this sum laid down by law, which you must lend me now, although I do not know you and I know only that you have not fulfilled your duties decently and that you may be punished for it.
“I only have a five-crown,” he said with resignation of the gendarmes.
“Come on,” said Drobilek. The police searched the purse until he cried out victoriously: – But I have change! How much did you say you were short on that sum?
4 crowns of forty-six halos.
And in the light of the pocket electrical flashlight, he paid out all the money to Drobil and thus Drobilek came to his uncle with money from the gendarme. Since then, they have been telling that this gendarme, called Frantisek Kohout, borrows at night all the suspicious men he meets during the celebration, 4 crowns of forty-six haleras, and so broke during the existence of the average advancement organization (in the Borders of the Law), that in the close future he is to appear from the gendarmes and will be alone at night playing the suspicious individual. By this act, Drobilek gained the sympathy of all organization members. In the next chapter we will gotta talk about how in a restaurant he heroically endured the failure of his fiancée.
Literary Publishing House, Kraków 1987, 2001
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