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

with small projecting heads. And when this most peculiar garb had been puton us, the assistants tightened up the 'bolts' in a certain order."On the inner side of these diving suits, at the end of the bolts, there were,it appeared, special plates which pressed against different parts of ourplanetary bodies."Later it became obvious to me that this was necessary to prevent ourplanetary bodies from undergoing what is called 'taranooranoora' or, in otherwords, from falling to pieces, as usually occurs to all intraplanetary andsurplanetary formations when they happen to come into an entirelyatmosphereless space."Besides these suits, the assistants placed on our heads something like'diving helmets,' with complicated 'connectors' projecting from them."One of these connectors, called 'harinkhrarkh,' meaning 'sustainer of thepulsation,' was a sort of long rubber tube, one end of which was hermeticallyattached by means of complicated appliances to the place on the helmetcorresponding to the breathing organs, while the other end, after we hadentered this strange 'hrakhartzakha,' was screwed into an apparatus connectedin its turn with the space whose presence corresponded with the 'secondbeing-food.'"Between Gornahoor Harharkh and myself there was also a 'specialconnector,' so that once inside the 'hrakhartzakha,' when the atmosphere hadbeen pumped out to produce an absolute vacuum, we could easilycommunicate with each other."One end of this connector was fitted in a certain way, by means ofappliances on the helmets, to my organs of 'hearing' and 'speech,' and theother end to those of Gornahoor Harharkh."Thus a sort of 'telephone,' as your favorites call it, was set up between myfuture essence-friend and myself."Without this appliance we could not have communicated