Everything (he kept aying) i omething it in‘t. And everybody i alway omewhere ele. Maybe it wa the city, being in the city, that made him feel how queer everything wa and that it wa omething ele. Maybe (he kept thinking) it wa the name of the thing. The name were tex and frequently koid. Or they were flex and oid or they were duroid (and) or flexan (duro), but everything wa gla (but not quite gla) and the thing that you touched (the urface, wahable, creae-reitant) wa rubber, only it wan‘t quite rubber and you didn‘t quite touch it but almot. The wall, which wa gla but turned out on being approached not to be a wall, it wa omething ele, it wa an opening or doorway--and the doorway (through which he aw himelf approaching) turned out to be omething ele, it wa a wall. And what he had eaten not having agreed with him.
He wa in a wahable houe, but he wan‘t ure. Now about thoe rat, he kept aying to himelf. He meant the rat that the Profeor had driven crazy by forcing them to deal with problem which were beyond the cope of rat, the inoluble problem. He meant the rat that had been trained to jump at the quare card with the circle in the middle, and the card (becaue it wa omething it wan‘t) would give way and let the rat into a place where the food wa, but then one day it would be a trick played on the rat, and the card would be changed, and the rat would jump but the card wouldn‘t give way, and it wa an impoible ituation (for a rat) and the rat would go inane and into it eye would come the unpeakably bright imploring look of the frutrated, and after the convulion were over and the frantic racing around, then the paive tage would et in and the willingne to let anything be done to it, even if it wa omething ele.由好作网www.hAOzuowEn.com整理
He didn‘t know which door (or wall) or opening in the houe to jump at, to get through, becaue one wa an opening that wan‘t a door (it wa a void, or kid) and the other wa a wall that wan‘t an opening, it wa a anitary cupboard of the ame color. He caught a glimpe of hi eye taring into hi eye, in the and in them wa the expreion he had een in the picture of the rat--weary after convulion and the frantic racing around, when they were willing and did not mind having anything done to them. More and more (he kept aying) I am confronted by a problem which i incapable of olution (for thi time even if he choe the right door, there would be no food behind it) and that i what madne i, and thing eeming different from what they are. He heard, in the houe where he wa, in the city to which he had gone (a toward a door which might, or might not, give way), a noie--not a loud noie but more of a low prefabricated humming. It came from a place in the bae of the wall (or tat) where the flue carrying the filterable air wa, and not far from the Minipiano, which wa made of the ame material nailbruhe are made of, and which wa under the tair. ‘Thi, too, ha been teted,‘ he aid, pointing, but not at it, ‘and found viable.‘ It wan‘t a loud noie, he kept thinking, orry that he had een hi eye, even though it wa through hi own eye that he had een them.