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...question, 'Is there life on Mars?' ", said Dr. Andrews, "has been definitely decided by recent observational evidence which shows the atmosphere of the planet contains but one quarter of one percent as much oxygen as does the earth's atmosphere at sea level. Human beings, such as inhabit the earth, would find life very difficult, far more extreme than the lack of oxygen at the top of high mountains...
Serious-minded Vasya (David Morris) and easygoing Abram (Eric Dressier) inhabit a squalid, one-room municipal apartment borrowed from an uproarious poet who has gone to the farms to develop his muscles. Each unknown to the other, they marry-or "register"-on the same day, return with their wives. The congestion is further complicated by the return of the poet with huge biceps. He, however, heroically surrenders his hovel, expecting it to become a "collective Soviet paradise...
That this state of affairs should exist for students on probation is bad enough, but that it should exist for those in good standing who have committed no sins at all is doubly exasperating. There is a numerous but inarticulate body of broken-spirited, grumbling upperclassmen, who inhabit the dim confines of Hotel Cleverly and Dudley who roam the streets in search of some pitying friend who will condescend to allow them to eat a meal in the unattainable splendor of a house dining room. At one stroke they have been cut off from one or the chief practical pleasures...
...dispositions" of animals, plants and inanimate things are as noteworthy as the attitudes of men. The Bahima of the Nile will not boil milk lest the cow be displeased and give no more. Eskimos, who consider animals much wiser than men, believe that seals are perpetually thirsty because they inhabit salt water. Accordingly when they kill a seal the first thing to do is douse a dipperful of fresh water into the seal's mouth. If this amenity is scrupulously observed, other seals will come and be killed in order to receive the refreshing draught...
...daughters of Italians who have gone native in Ethiopia but made pious provision for their bastards by founding a convent school. Said an Italian consular official as he put the little girls on the train: "They are the future mothers of a new, nobler generation that is going to inhabit the country that was called Ethiopia...