Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

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Kilpreno

 

3 The Cause of the Delay in the Falling of the Ship Karnak

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“The point is that if we follow our intended course, then our ship, after two ‘Kilprenos,’1 will pass through the solar system ‘Vuanik.’

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“But just through where our ship must pass, there must also pass, about a ‘Kilpreno’ before, the great comet belonging to that solar system and named ‘Sakoor’ or, as it is sometimes called, the ‘Madcap.’

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“There is still another planet, a quite small one, bearing the name Moon, in that solar system, my dear boy.

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“During its motion this peculiar little planet often approached very near to our planet Mars and sometimes during whole ‘Kilprenos’ I took great pleasure in observing through my ‘Teskooano3 in my observatory the process of existence of the three-brained beings upon it.

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1 The word “Kilpreno” in the language of Beelzebub means a certain period of time, equal approximately to the duration of the flow of time which we call an “hour.”

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3Teskooano” means “telescope.”