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- What's the difference between intelligent and intellectual?
- The difference is very signifficant, - replied he. - I can only exlain it with the help of an allegory. Do you know what does this word mean?
I nodded.
- When you was very young, one hundred thousand people lived in this town, who were getting their wage for kissing a disgisting red dragon in the ass. You likely don't remeber him already...
I shook my head. Once in my young days I actually saw the red dragon, but has already forgotten how it would look like, - so now I still remember just my own fear.
- Naturally, that one hundred thousand hated the dragon and dreamed about getting ruled by a green toad who was waging a war against the dragon. So, the deal was done with the toad, they poisoned the dragon with the lipstick which they got from CIA and they began to live their life the new way.
- But how is all that story related to the intell...
- Wait, - he raised the hand. They thought under the toad their will be doing the same thing as before as their job, but the wage will be a dozen times more. But actually, it turned out that instead of thousands of kissers, only three professionals are needed nowadays, who, working 8/5, would continuously do deep blowjob to the toad. And who of that hundred of thousands would be chosen as one of these three is going to be decided after open competition, where they would have to diplay not just their highest professionalism, but also the ability of doing an optimistic smile with the edges of the mouth as they are doing their job.
- To be honest, I've already lost the thread...
- And the point is this: those one hundred thousand were called "intelligents". And these 3 are "intellectuals".
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(c) V. Pelevin
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