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

among certain of the abstaining monks produces 'poisoninoskirian vibrations'instead of deposits of fat, there even exists a very detailed 'theory,' worked outseveral centuries ago by a certain what is called 'Catholic monk,' who provedconclusively that this happens because in the first years of their existencethese 'thin monks' busy themselves very zealously with that occupation fromwhich, as is known even to contemporary medicine, 'pimples' generallyappear on the faces of young beings there."So that you may represent to yourself and fully understand thesignificance of this sort of abstinence among these contemporary monks, itremains for me to add that during my last sojourn on the planet Earth Ibecame convinced that, thanks only to the results of the involutionary processof the exioëhary in these unfortunate terrestrial abstaining monks, thecrystallization of various consequences of the properties of the organkundabuffer in their common presence has become greatly facilitated and hastherefore increased.At this point in his narrative, Beelzebub was interrupted by a ship's servantwho handed him a 'leitoochanbros ' He put it to his ear and began to listen tothe contents.'