Beelzebubs-Tales-to-His-Grandson-by-G-I-Gurdjieff

chairs. Above the table hung three identical 'things' like terrestrial electriclight bulbs and resembling 'momonodooars.' On the table and standing besideit were several different apparatuses and instruments altogether unknownto me."I afterward realized that all the objects contained in this 'hrakhartzakha,'as well as everything we were to put on later, were made of special materialsinvented by Gornahoor Harharkh As regards these materials, I will go intomore detail at the proper time."Meanwhile bear in mind that in the enormous 'khrkh,' or workshop, ofGornahoor Harharkh, besides the 'hrakhartzakha' there were several otherlarge independent apparatuses, and among them two quite special 'lifechakhans,'which Gornahoor Harharkh called 'khrikhirkhis.'"It is interesting to note that your favorites also have something like this'life-chakhan,' or 'khrikhirkhi,' which they call a 'dynamo.'"At one side stood another enormous appliance which turned out to be aspecial kind of 'solookhnorakhoona,' or what your favorites would describe asa 'pump of complex construction for exhausting the atmosphere to the pointof absolute vacuum."While I was looking at all this with amazement, Gornahoor Harharkh wentover to this complex pump and with his left wing moved one of its parts, thusputting a certain mechanism in motion He then came back to us and, pointingwith the same special feather of his right wing to the largest 'life-chakhan,' or'khrikhirkhi,' that is, 'dynamo,' continued his explanations:'This particular appliance first sucks in separately all the threeindependent parts of the omnipresent active element Okidanokh present in theatmosphere or in any intraplanetary or surplanetary formation, and only whenthese sep-