By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

“I began to count my steps and carefully measure my paces…”

By: George Gurdjieff

“What? About what slugs?” asked Beelzebub.

By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

“I was sure that I was moving in a straight direction…”

By: George Gurdjieff

“You are not yet obliged to pay for your existence.

By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

“For some inexplicable reason the picture frets me.”

By: George Gurdjieff

“A very strong ‘mastic’ unaffected by ‘paischakir.'”

By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

“terrible and uncanny happenings”

By: George Gurdjieff

“Ships like ours simply fall toward the nearest stability.”

By: George Gurdjieff

“Everything existing in the world ‘falls to the bottom.'”

By: Robert W. Chambers

“It’s purring around the boat.”

By: Robert W. Chambers

“As wet as a sheet of india-rubber in a dissecting-room.”

By: George Gurdjieff

“Their Reason is uniquely and utterly bizarre.”

By: Robert W. Chambers

“I want to ask you if you ever saw a man with gills like a fish?”

By: Robert W. Chambers

“What do you think of my auks — and my veracity?”

By: George Gurdjieff

“Three-brained beings dwell on almost all planets.”