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In the traditional Russian villages, the young girls would often get together to rent an old hut or a room in someone’s house. They would gather there in the evenings to tell stories, do needlework and sing. The young men would come to join in the merrymaking. Sometimes it seems that the merrymaking would become an orgy, though there are conflicting ideas about this.
In search of unrealised paradises, a communist and a capitalist break into summer homes to build a new future.
A hunchbacked Norwegian captain orders a suit from a Dublin tailor. The finished suit does not fit him, and the captain berates the tailor for being unable to sew, whereupon the irate tailor denounces him for being impossible to fit.
An artist wants to write all the stories in the world. She meets a cartographer and an inventor. The inventor makes a machine to make old stories new. The new stories are stranger than the originals.
Little Hans, whose father had been sending Freud reports about his son’s interest in sexual matters—suddenly developed a phobia (an infantile neurosis). He refused to leave the house and go into the street for fear of being bitten by a horse.
They began to circulate the theory of the foreign body that had penetrated the social fabric and had to be surgically removed.