"destroyed the steering mechanism of the rocket." "I put on my special space suit in order to climb on top of the rocket and fix the steering mechanism." "Luckily, I had the right replacement parts in the basement of the rocket." "I would need a second person to hold the bolt on the other side." "I made up a complicated plan, for I was alone on the rocket." "Thus, I had many hours of hard labor and the expensive tool was gone." "The screw wrench orbitted around the rocket, but it was out of my reach." "Hey!" "Get up!" "Take your tools;" "we go out to repair the machine." "Come on." "You're a stranger." "Why do you address me informally?" "[He said 'du' instead of the formal 'Sie', which one would use for a stranger.]" "I said, get up and come with me." "We have to repair the rocket." "Get going!" "Nonsense, I won't go anywhere." "Repairing the machine in a dream wouldn't make sense." "Yeah, okay, you're Ijon Tichy, too." "You can address me informally." "You're as stubborn as a mule, eh?" "You will be sorry for yourself." "Because I'm the only human on this planet for so long, I doubled myself in dreams." "so you can climb on top of the rocket, where we'll fix the machine together." "But I feel queasy." "Are you sure that this will work?" "But when you're alone on top of the rocket, keep your fingers away from the machine for the time being." "My task is to help you, but I'm not supposed to touch anything?" "Obviously, the adjustment of the holographic lense didn't work out so well." "And when I saw that by adjusting the projector, the 'nuclear pillar' overheated," "but this stupid piece of meat came by at the kitchen window every 11 minutes." "I went to the library to search for a way out of my bad situation in the Cosmic Encyclopedia." "Then, I pore through the star chart in seatch for an inhabited planet, where I could find help." "But the whole area was a desert of cosmic gravitation vortexes." "But in the floating encyclopedia there was talk about time warp." "that if I could steer the rocket a bit more towards the vortex, there could be the 'vortex gravitatiosus effect'." "When in the middle of the night, I returned from the machinery hall," "Obviously, the time warp was successful." "Hey!" "Get up!" "Take your tools;" "we go out to repair the machine." "Come on." "I - from Tuesday in front of the bed - knew that there was such a thing." "I'm from Wednesday of course." "But doesn't matter." "Come on now, we go up and fix the machine." "In the night from Monday to Tuesday, Monday became Tuesday." "You are." "The only good thing is, you will experience the same rubbish as I do, when you're in Wednesday." "I knew what that meant." "I also knew I couldn't convince this stubborn donkey." "But the idea that the time vortex could spin forever, creeped me out." "The local Wednesday, near the kitchen stove, was finally gone into the past." "so, the following vortex would bend the time from Friday back to today's Wednesday." "The one from Friday wouldn't let me inside the bathroom by obviously loitering." "What's the matter?" "You're lying, huh?" "Why do you lie?" "She says, her memory has been erased by a technical defect." "Why, later people said, I only made up this story." "Bad people said, I had a weakness for alcohol, in which I indulge only covertly when I'm on earth, but when I'm on a long space journey unrestrainedly." "Only God knows all the rumours there are." "But that's how people are."