"When on Saturday, December 2, I flew near-by, well, I don't really know anymore, I had no certain destination." "Nobody acts up with Ijon Tichy." "How do you want to know?" "You're holographic." "You never tasted it." "The gas tanks empty!" "How can this be?" "Now I was in it after all." "A new adventure." "Even though, I didn't want to." "I went to the library and read in the 'Cosmic Encyclopedia'." "But the book said, there was no planet anywhere near." "How could this be?" "And I had a feeling that I've been here before." "Mr. Tichy?" "I really don't understand this;" "the tank was filled, most certainly." "But I was a great hero and this was a small forest." "I would have liked to go back to the safe rocket, but I already walked quite a bit," "Eat." "If your inner voice tells you, you want pepper on eggs," "My inner voice only told me that I was annoyed I even left the rocket anyway." "If you let this 'Halluzi-thingy-nelle' act up with you anymore, she will take your place in the rocket." "I'm Ijon Tichy and I built the 'Halluzinelle' in the rocket myself." "Look, Ijon Tichy!" "What became of you?" "(Go to your mistress.) And you say, you're the hero of cosmos?" "Suddenly, my inner voice clearly told me, it couldn't go on like this with Ijon Tichy." "Now you go to the rocket and clean up your life." "And kick out this holograpic...cow." "You will." "I know." "My dear Ijon, you are currently reading your own story." "When I came back to the rocket, 'I made remembering' that the gas tank was empty." "Stay there, stay there." "From now on, you'll do the steering of the rocket on your own." "Got it?" "Yes." "It's your job." "It's the reason, why I puzzled you together." "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." "Why, but that's how people are."