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Pseudo-science bombast satire
Pseudo-science satire
The comic figure of the overzealous would-be scientist making absurd pseudo-scientific claims (the soul as a "gaseous body"), part of Chekhov's recurring send-up of half-educated positivist bombast in "The Zealot."
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- Captions for Drawings §199 THE ZEALOT
A stock figure of the overzealous would-be scientist, spouting pseudo-scientific claims about the soul as a 'gaseous body' -- part of Chekhov's recurring satire of half-educated positivist bombast.
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