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ALI SLOPER; OR, THE FORTY LIARS
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our Superlatively Honoured Frater so and so has lost his machine and must find another; and that's the view from Binah; but the view from Chesed is "Let me keep this machine in perfect order, in case our S.H. Frater wants to dictate."

Bones. Just so; and if Brother Bowley goes on lying, our S.H. Frater will one day strike the A key and find a B on the paper. Then he will probably say: Damn the machine!β€”and do it.

Bowley. We are leaving exactitude and wallowing in analogy. We have run up and down the planes till we are less like Exempt Adepti than monkeys on sticks; weβ€”β€”β€”

Bones. We had better go to bed.