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Page manuscrite d'Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, de Stephen Leacock, 1914.
Reproduite avec la permission des Archives nationales du Canada, MG30 D40, vol. 10, no 10.19.
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absolute Nirvana, or the Negation of Emptiness, the supreme goal of Boohooism.

As a first step to all this, Mr. Snoop explained, each neophyte or candidate for holiness must, after searching his own heart, send ten dollars to Mr. Yahi-Bahi. Gold, it appeared, was recognised in the cult of Boohooism as typifying the three chief virtues, whereas silver or paper money did not; even national bank-notes were only regarded as dô or, a half way palliation; and outside currencies such as Canadian or Mexican bills were looked upon as entirely boo, or contemptible. The Oriental view of money, said


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