"Behold: there sits the Wise One; now, for true wisdom!" From the voices of the party, the sage must have been aware of our approach: but seated on a green bank, beneath the shade of a red mulberry, upon the boughs of which, many an owl was perched, he seemed intent upon describing divers figures in the air, with a jet-black wand.
Advancing with much deference and humility, Babbalanja saluted him.
"Oh wise Doxodox! Drawn hither by thy illustrious name, we seek admittance to thy innermost wisdom.

Of all Mardian, thou alone comprehendest those arcane combinations, whereby to drag to day the most deftly hidden things, present and to come.

Thou knowest what we are, and what we shall be.

We beseech thee, evoke thy Tselmns!" "Tetrads; Pentads; Hexads; Heptads; Ogdoads:--meanest thou those ?" "New terms all!" "Foiled at thy own weapons," said Media.
"Then, if thou comprehendest not my nomenclature:--how my science?
But let me test thee in the portico .-- Why is it, that as some things extend more remotely than others; so, Quadammodotatives are larger than Qualitatives; forasmuch, as Quadammodotatives extend to those things, which include the Quadammodotatives themselves." "Azzageddi has found his match," said Media.
"Still posed, Babbalanja ?" asked Mohi.
"At a loss, most truly! But I beseech thee, wise Doxodox! instruct me in thy dialectics, that I may embrace thy more recondite lore." "To begin then, my child:--all Dicibles reside in the mind." "But what are Dicibles ?" said Media.
"Meanest thou, Perfect or Imperfect Dicibles ?" Any kind you please;-- but what are they ?" "Perfect Dicibles are of various sorts: Interrogative; Percontative; Adjurative; Optative; Imprecative; Execrative; Substitutive; Compellative; Hypothetical; and lastly, Dubious." "Dubious enough! Azzageddi! forever, hereafter, hold thy peace." "Ah, my children! I must go back to my Axioms." "And what are they ?" said old Mohi.
"Of various sorts; which, again, are diverse.

Thus: my contrary axioms are Disjunctive, and Subdisjunctive; and so, with the rest.