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All the things have been confused – the inorganic comprehensions, the irrational numbers, chances and laws, Yin and Ian. The Buddhism, the Christianity and the quantum mechanics are being mentioned. The ex-hung-up, the underlicked cub, the Hippogriff, the unknown dinosaur, a certain Pedro and one cat keep the company of the main character of the story, who has been careless enough to take the shower. However, the urge towards the personal hygiene has never opened in front of the person such secrets of the universe, the evolution and the science.


FRAGMENTS
Fragment 1

The old man disappeared behind the books suddenly as well as he had appeared. I was waiting for the end of the story about the ball, but Johnny pushed me towards the following corner and let me know that the audience was finished. Walking along the bookshelves I decided that the phrase about the ball either means nothing or hints at my awkward movements. I tried to make my step lighter and easier but knocked down a few poorly placed retorts. If not Johnny’s smart owning the unique hand, our way would be covered by pieces and fragments.
- Let me catch my breath, - my companion was cunning in order to stop such an advance. –I suffer a short breath from the moment of hanging up.
- How long do you have it?
- I can’t tell it for sure. I remember only that I’d got bored with being hung up – that’s why I’m here.
- Is it boring to be hung up? – It seemed to me that he was not inclined to take offence at jokes.
- To be hung is really good, but when one starts to tear parts off you for different sorts of amulets and drugs, it irritates. However, I regard it philosophically and did not protest against cutting my nice hand off. But to let all the fat to be melted from me is too much. I’d jumped down from the branch into my room and got here after all.
While talking we came up slowly to another table. Unlike the previous one it had nothing on it but a sheet of paper full of figures. An elderly gray-haired man in the dark three-piece suit was studying the sheet of paper. 
- For a piece of advice?
- Yes.
- Do you think I have nothing more to do?
- I’ve no answer as I don’t know what you’re doing now.
- You’re saying rude things! – He settled back in the armchair and stared at me. It seemed to me that his anger was a little bit affected and he was amusing himself like that.
- Certainly not! – I answered him in the same tone.
- I move apart the ordinary, - the "professor" declared it loudly rising from his place. – I make holes in it.
- How do you do it?
- I’m looking for irrational numbers. – He answered in a quiet voice and sat down again. 
- What for?
- I’ve already told you.
- What about rational ones?
- Rational numbers are tautologies or rephrased definitions. The fact that two by two is four has already been put into the definition of number "four". As for irrational ones they’re just approximate. The numbers are real, and they bring us to the true absolute world.
- Is it the help?
- Not quite. The help is: start up in a circle.
- Thanks.
- Not at all.
Fragment 2

He pushed me gently into the cafe above which the sign «At Osiris’s» was shining. There was twilight in it. There was nobody except two old men playing an odd game behind one of the little tables. It was difficult to understand whether they were the late visitors or the bored service personnel of this establishment. Both of them turned over to greet us.
- They’re old men Set and Gore. - Gregory explained me in a whisper. - They play with each other all the time and we are afraid that some of them would win one day.
I yawned for some reason, and all the present looked significantly at each other.
- Gore! Please, explain to him the sense of your game, – the hippogriff asked and whispered to me again. – It was he who has thought out our physics and yours, too.
- Sit down nearer, – the old man addressed to me. – Look at the table.
I sat down on the chair put by Gregory. At first sight the surface of the table was covered by the sand and the stones of different colors. But the more I looked at it, the more exciting picture appeared before my look. The colors became intense, the fires flashed and …. played. I watched the singing and shining with all colors universe. Suddenly I came back to the reality as Set had passed his hand above the table. I began to be absorbed by the visible again, but the picture changed suddenly. There appeared the chaotic flashes being not connected with each other in any way and the same sharp dissonant sounds. The more I was plunging into it, the more insufferable the visible and the heard became. I wanted to close my eyes and my ears, but I couldn’t. The enormous shadow rushed above all again – it was Gore’s hand. All the things were put in order, but they became absolutely monotonous. Having had a rest from Chaos I began to get tired of the monotony of the seen. But here the shadows of the hands of both players flashed by me. All the things returned to the former condition. It was the average between the chaos and the monotony. So I came back to the cafe because of Gregory’s claws on my shoulders.
- Have you seen it? – Gore asked.
- Yes. – I forced out from myself.
- Imagine that the absolute is represented in the form of the space in which there are always some events-flashes.  The only thing that we can tell about them is that that they are present. They do not possess any parameters (the duration, the intensity, etc.). They are chaotic and unpredictable for us, but we can think out the laws controlling these flashes which would give them the visibility of causality and orderliness. In this case the properties of self-sufficiency and openness to the absolute would be observed. But how these events-flashes can be connected with each other? If our laws are "rigid", only their small number will be connected with each other. But if the pseudo-laws operating flashes have the probable character there will always be an opportunity for the further adjustment. And, finally, all events will be coordinated. But what should one begin with? One should begin from the most simple thing, in other words to connect them in pairs.
Fragment 3

We came up or rather swam up to the entrance of the cave, and the man in the hat gave me the sunglasses. There was nothing visible there but the outlines. But the man said that it was enough, and if I removed the sunglasses I would go mad. Having frightened me he led me into the cave. It was damp and cool there as it should be in such places. And we had been walking for a long time until I heard an insinuating and tender voice of my companion. 
- Hi, Gorgosha.
- Hi, Pedro. – The invisible female-speaker whispered.
- We’ve decided to walk on the mountain.
- Is he already tired with playing? – I understood that they were talking about me.
- Playing what? – I broke into the conversation as I don’t like being spoken about in the name of the third person.
- Playing the life or rather the organic life. – The invisible female-speaker hissed again.
- Do you want… to kill me? – My mouth got too dry.
- Are you afraid of it?
- Certainly. – I answered automatically, but there I felt that my fear was automatic as well. However, all was absolutely empty inside me.
- Explain it to him, please, – Pedro asked.
- You’re an inorganic living thing or the empty vessel of comprehension floating in the Absolute.
- Are you sure?
- Imagine yourself the essences. Let’s call them comprehensions. They exist in their own world which is almost incomprehensible for us. This world is extremely difficult for the perception. It’s so complicated that an unprepared perception will suffer inconceivable torments. We should have suffered the same torments if we appeared to be in the room with deafening music and blinding flashes of light without any preparation. However, this torture for the "immature" essences is not connected rather with the level of influence than with the fact that they cannot perceive the world with all its interrelations because it’s an unimaginable and frightening chaos for them. How can one act? The rehabilitation program preparing the comprehension for the perception of the world is necessary then. And what can prepare better the essence which is not established for the "adult" life but the game? So they’re playing. Each of such comprehensions is plunged into the game just as we plunge into our dreams every night. Having a dream we do not also perceive the things that occur in reality.  Whether playing or sleeping the comprehensions do not perceive the external world.
The comprehension which has reached the necessary level of perception should wake up itself, shaking off the world-dream which it does not require any more. So you have when your dream stops, and if you realize that it’s only a dream, we recollect ourselves in another world or in reality. How to make the dream to turn from the simple illusion into the bridge between the present and the imaginary world? On the one hand it should comply completely with the essences which are not ready to leave it yet. On the other hand it is necessary for the "advanced" comprehensions to perceive the external and absolute world through their world-dreams as through the filter for this purpose.
Fragment 4

The last phrase concerned Pedro who just shrugged his shoulders and went further on.
- Why haven’t you given him money?
- I love him as much as myself. I do not love my organic flesh and I do not indulge it, therefore I haven’t given him money as I would not give it to myself.
-  To my mind you turn everything upside down. The Christian morality …
- First of all, I know that the morality did not interest him at all. If you desired the welfare, you had already sinned regardless of your actions. Not to desire is possible only being indifferent to it. The indifference to the organic world opens the door in the world of the absolute or the inorganic world. From this follow the appeals not to think of tomorrow, to turn the other cheek …, etc. Those who have had the time to prepare for perception of the absolute are waiting for the paradise sensations, and those who haven’t had the time for it – the infernal tortures.

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