# The Absolute at Large — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for The Absolute at Large by Karel Čapek.

- [I: The Advertisement](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/i-the-advertisement.md): On New Year's Day 1943, industrialist G. H. Bondy reads a newspaper and becomes fixated on the fragment 'tion' from a small advertisement. After searching, he finds it is an ad from R. Marek, Engineer, offering a highly 
- [II: The Karburator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/ii-the-karburator.md): G. H. Bondy visits Rudy Marek, who reveals his revolutionary invention, the Karburator, which can completely utilize atomic energy by disintegrating matter. Bondy is skeptical but intrigued, and after a tense exchange, h
- [III: Pantheism](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/iii-pantheism.md): G. H. Bondy recovers from his intense experience in the cellar, where he felt a sense of bliss and transcendence. Rudy Marek reveals that his invention, the Karburator, achieves total combustion of matter, releasing an i
- [IV: God in the Cellar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/iv-god-in-the-cellar.md): Rudy Marek reveals to G. H. Bondy that his Perfect Karburator, a device that completely disintegrates matter, produces not only mechanical power but also a byproduct: pure, unconfined Absolute, or God. Marek describes th
- [Bishop Linda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/v-bishop-linda.md): Bondy and Marek discuss the rapid spread of religious ecstasy linked to the Karburator, including an epidemic at the Petřín wireless station and the conversion of the Minister for War. Bishop Linda visits Bondy to negoti

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- [VI: The Board-Meeting](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/vi-the-board-meeting.md)
- [VII: Developments](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/vii-developments.md)
- [VIII: The Dredge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/viii-the-dredge.md)
- [IX: The Ceremony](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/ix-the-ceremony.md)
- [X: Saint Ellen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/x-saint-ellen.md)
- [XI: The First Blow Struck](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xi-the-first-blow-struck.md)
- [Doctor Blahous](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xii-doctor-blahous.md)
- [XIII: The Chronicler’s Apology](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xiii-the-chronicler-s-apology.md)
- [XIV: The Land of Plenty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xiv-the-land-of-plenty.md)
- [XV: Disaster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xv-disaster.md)
- [XVI: In the Mountains](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xvi-in-the-mountains.md)
- [XVII: The Hammer and Star](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xvii-the-hammer-and-star.md)
- [XVIII: In the Night Editor’s Room](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xviii-in-the-night-editor-s-room.md)
- [XIX: The Process of Canonization](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xix-the-process-of-canonization.md)
- [XX: St. Kilda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xx-st-kilda.md)
- [XXI: The Telegram](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xxi-the-telegram.md)
- [XXII: The Old Patriot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xxii-the-old-patriot.md)
- [The Augsburg Imbroglio](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xxiii-the-augsburg-imbroglio.md)
- [XXIV: The Napoleon of the Mountain Brigade](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xxiv-the-napoleon-of-the-mountain-brigade.md)
- [XXV: The So-Called Greatest War](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xxv-the-so-called-greatest-war.md)
- [The Battle of Hradec Králové](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xxvi-the-battle-of-hradec-kr-lov.md)
- [A Coral Island in the Pacific](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xxvii-a-coral-island-in-the-pacific.md)
- [At Seven Cottages](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xxviii-at-seven-cottages.md)
- [XXIX: The Last Battle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xxix-the-last-battle.md)
- [XXX: The End of Everything](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/xxx-the-end-of-everything.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_absolute_at_large_se/chapters/endnotes.md)

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