"It's the Disruption, Philip Philipovich." 
"No,"  Philip  Philipovich  contradicted  him  with  the  utmost  certainty.  "You 
should  be  the  first,  dear  Ivan  Arnoldovich,  to  refrain  from  using  that  particular 
word.  It  is  a  mirage,  smoke,  fiction."  Philip  Philipovich  spread  wide  his  short 
fingers so that two shadows resembling tortoises began to wriggle across the table-
cloth. "What is this Disruption of yours? An old woman with a staff? A witch who 
goes round knocking out the window-panes and putting out the lamps? Why, she 
doesn't exist at all. What do you mean by the word?" demanded Philip Philipovich 
furiously of the unfortunate cardboard duck suspended legs uppermost by the side-
board, and answered for it himself. 

"I'll tell you what it means. If I stop doing operations every evening and initiate 
choir practice in my flat instead, I'll get Disruption. If, when I go to the lavatory, I, 
if  you'll  forgive  the  expression,  begin  to  piss  and  miss  the  bowl,  and  Zina  and 
Darya Petrovna do the same, then we get Disruption in the lavatory. So it follows 
that Disruption is in the head. So, when all these baritones start calling upon us to 
'Beat  Disruption',  I  just  laugh."  (Philip  Philipovich's  face  twisted  into  such  a 
terrible grimace that the bitten man's mouth fell open.) "Believe me, I just laugh. It 
means  that  every  one  of  them  should  begin  by  knocking  himself  over  the  head! 
And  when  he's  whacked  out  all  the  hallucinations  and  begins  to  clean  out  the 
barns — the job he was made for — Disruption will disappear of its own accord. 
You can't serve two gods! It is impossible at one and the same time to sweep the 
tram lines and to organise the fate of a lot of Spanish ragamuffins. No one can do 
that,  Doctor,  and  still  less  people  who  are  roughly  two  hundred  years  behind 
Europe in their general development and are still none too sure how to button up 
their own trousers!" 

From 'The Heart of a Dog' (M. Bulgakov)
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