Twenty-one more anecdotes of the Hodja. A funeral procession sets his son wondering whether the dead man is being brought to their house, it being so poorly furnished; an empty box proves a halwa that was eaten on the way; a wife swept downstream is looked for upstream, since she always was contrary; a candle goes out before a third heir can follow the light; a boy's one-line poem is feasted by the whole quarter as the tongue of a nightingale; and when his friends swear the world ends tomorrow so that they may eat his lamb, the Hodja believes them — roasts the lamb, and burns the caps and clothes they left beside him: if tomorrow is the end of the world, what do you need clothes for? A thief packs up the house and is followed home by the Hodja carrying the rest; a little Persian frightens off the curious; hot soup, swallowed, makes a man burn inside; and the ducks that got away are eaten after all — as duck sauce.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
From Der Hodscha Nasreddin by Albert Wesselski (1911), public domain; told in a fresh in-house rendering.
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Chapters:
0:00 Opening
0:05 Are They Bringing Him to Us?
0:38 Look at the Box
1:12 A Pot of White Onions
1:32 She Drifts Upstream
2:09 Our Common Father
2:44 The Cradle Between the Beds
2:59 Blow Out the Candle
3:56 At the Governor's Door
4:30 Who Guards the Softa?
4:57 Only an Old Man
5:19 The Tongue of a Nightingale
6:25 Open the Claws
7:05 Now She Is Dead
7:49 No Room for the Table
8:17 Give Me the Nine
8:43 Scolding the Well
9:12 If the World Ends Tomorrow
10:54 The House We Moved To
11:25 Speaking Persian
11:52 I Burn Inside
12:07 Duck Sauce
