This afternoon I did not want to see an unknown gentleman, but coming out of the house, I find the gentleman still waiting, hoping to see me all the same. I talk to him and see by profession he is a whales man. Immediately, the same instant, I request him to send me several vertebrae of this mammal. He has promised to do so with the upmost diligence. My capacity to profit from everything is unlimited. In less than an hour, I have listed sixty-two different applications for these whale vertebrae — a ballet, a film, a painting, a philosophy, a therapeutic decoration, a magical effect, a hallucinatory method both Lilliputian and psychological law, proportions exceeding human measurement, a new way to pee, a brush. All this in the shape of a whale's vertebrae.