“Six persons sat round the great oak table in the wainscoted Speise Saal of that cozy hostelry, the Kneiper Hof at Konigsberg. It was late into the night. Under ordinary circumstances, they would have been in bed, but having arrived by the last train from Dantzic, and having supped on German fare, it had seemed to them discreeter to remain awhile in talk. The house was strangely silent. The rotund landlord, leaving their candles ranged upon the sideboard, had wished them “Gute Nacht” an hour before. The spirit of the ancient house enfolded them within its wings.
The Philosopher’s Joke
Here in this very chamber, if the rumor is to be believed, Emmanuel Kant himself had sat discoursing many a time and oft.”
There are six people. They are close friends and can not get away with one another.
One of them told a story, but immediately wished he had not. He’s telling the story that was an impulse of the moment. Another person dismissed the entire narrative as a delusion of a disordered brain. The first one begged the other, not to mention the matter to another living soul. But that matter (story) moved on from one person to another and all six persons were persuaded of its truth- but all tried to convince themselves it was a hallucination.
It seemed impossible to accept as a fact that all of them at the same time and in the same manner had fallen victims of the same illusion. You will be compelled to keep your focus intact by the narrator to make some sense of the story!
A strange but interesting story! This was a short story written by Jerome K. Jerome, who was an English author born in 1859. He is more famous for his classic book “Three men in a boat.”
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