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

"In spite of all the obvious advantages of preserving products in suchvessels, certain beings with good sense, existing in the country ofMaralpleicie, observed that, in beings who habitually used products preservedin this way, what is called 'organic shame' was progressively atrophied, so, assoon as they had succeeded in spreading the information about this discoveryof theirs, all the beings around them ceased to employ this method, andeventually it was dropped so completely from common use that theknowledge that such a method had ever existed failed to reach even the fifthor sixth generation after them."On this continent of Asia various methods of preserving edible productshave existed throughout the ages, and several of these are used even now,having come down to contemporary beings from their remote ancestors."But of all these methods not one was so harmful to beings as this methodinvented by the contemporary beings of America, with their poison-exudingtin cans."This principle of preserving products in 'hermetically sealed' vessels toprevent exposure to the atmosphere and thus, as it were, avoid the process ofdecomposition, is well known to certain contemporary Asiatic groups, butthey never have recourse for this purpose to these American tin cans."On the continent of Asia, they only use what is called 'koordiook' fat forthis purpose.'Koordiook' fat is a substance that accumulates in great quantity aroundthe tail of a certain form of two-brained quadruped being named 'sheep,'breeding everywhere on the continent of Asia."This sheep's-tail fat contains no cosmic crystallizations harmful to thecommon presence of three-brained beings, and is itself one of the chiefproducts used for their first being-food on the continent of Asia But themetals of which the contemporary beings of the continent of America make