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

the way we had come and travel from there to Pearl-land in our shipOccasion."Although this journey, in those days almost impossible for the beings ofthe Earth, would take a great deal of time, I reflected that the journey back tothe Sea of Beneficence, with its unforeseeable contingencies, would perhapstake not much less time. Moreover, an association arose in my thoughtsbecause long before this I had heard a great deal about the peculiarities ofnature in the regions through which the proposed caravan route lay, and inconsequence a certain 'being-love of knowledge' that was already crystallizedin me, having been shocked into functioning by what I had overheard, at onceimposed on my common presence the need to experience all this myselfdirectly with my own organs of perception."That is why, my boy, I purposely went over and sat down with thosebeings and joined in their discussion. As a result, Ahoon and I were includedin their caravan, and two days later we set off with them."We then passed through some most unusual places, unusual even for thenature of that ill-fated planet, certain parts of which, by the way, had becomeso strange only because this planet had already undergone two what arecalled 'transapalnian perturbations,' almost without precedent in the Universe.From the very first day we had to make our way through gorges overhungwith rocky 'projections' of unusual forms, containing conglomerations of allkinds of 'intraplanetary minerals.'"It was only after a month's travel, according to their time calculation, thatour caravan from Arguenia came to places where Nature had not completelylost the possibility of producing surplanetary formations in the soil, and ofcreating corresponding conditions for the arising and existence of variousone-brained and two-brained beings."After all sorts of difficulties, at last, one clear morning,