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

"Nowadays it frequently happens that the process of the sacred'rascooarno' in your favorites takes place 'by thirds' —that is to say, they 'diein parts ' This also proceeds from the fact that, arising and being formed onlyaccording to the principle of itoklanotz and existing inharmoniously, they useup the contents of the bobbinkandelnosts of their three separate, independentbrains disproportionately, and hence they frequently undergo such a horrible'dying' as is not proper to three-brained beings."During my stay among them I personally very often witnessed their'dying by thirds.'"And this can take place because even though the bobbinkandelnost of oneof their brains may be entirely used up, the beings themselves, especially thecontemporary ones, sometimes continue to exist for quite a long time."For instance, it often happens that, owing to their particularly abnormalexistence, the contents of one of their bobbinkandelnosts are used up and, if itis the case of the moving center or, as they themselves call it, the 'spinal cord,'then although this three-brained being continues to 'think' and to 'feel,' he hasalready lost the possibility of intentionally directing the parts of his planetarybody."Here it is interesting to note that, when in one of your contemporaryfavorites a part finally dies in this way, their 'zirlikners' or, as they are called,'physicians,' look upon such a death as unquestionably a disease, and begin totreat it with every kind of wiseacring already proper to them, and they givethese supposed diseases all sorts of names sounding like an ancient languageutterly unknown to them called 'Latin. '"These widespread diseases there have such names as the following'hemiplegia,' 'paraplegia,' 'paralysis progressiva,' 'paralysis essentialis,' 'tabesdorsalis,' 'paralysis agitans,' 'sclerosis disseminata,' and so on and so forth.