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D41-3 A day on UMMO - Art of blending perfumes
Daily Life on UMMO-3 [ VCEU-3 ]
No. of Copies 1
Language: Spanish
Mr. D. Fernando Sesma Manzano
Madrid
306. OUR DAILY LIFE ON UMMO.
Since Earthmen do not know the millions of small details concerning our clothing, furniture, social and economic structure, a description that captures the various incidents of our daily life is extremely difficult.
If we try to sketch for you the account of how a day passes for a particular family on UMMO, we run the risk that you, earthly men who always tend to generalize particular cases without first making a statistical examination of how often a given social phenomenon occurs in practice, will wrongly judge that our life is full of monotony and lacks a richness of nuances compared with that of earthlings.
What we are going to describe to you, then, is one of the various ways in which a day may pass for one of the OMGGEEYIE (MARRIED COUPLES) of the Planet we come from. Of course the brother who, instead of living in a rural area, resides in an industrial colony goes about his day differently.
Bear in mind that the period of rotation of our planet UMMO on its axis is one XII (read SII) equal to 600 uiw, which is equivalent to 30.92 hours. That is: Our day is longer than the earthly one.
Let us imagine the case of a young couple with two children: A boy who has not yet reached adolescence and a UUYIE (YOUNG GIRL) who, at 16 earth years, is studying OUDEE (Biopathology) at the UNAWO UI.
The married couple is young: He is 34 earth years old and his YIE has not reached 31. Living with them, until he reaches 68.6 earth years, is the married couple formed by the husband's parents. Both are retired (We say EDDOIBOOI (WITHOUT DEFINITE WORK)) and they chose, by common agreement with the younger couple, to move to the same dwelling, for which purpose they gave up their old one and acquired, in agreement with the UMMOAELEWEE, a more spacious XAABI (DWELLING TOWER).
The GEE (HUSBAND) Is at present inspector of a UULWAAGIADAA team (A kind of viewer similar to the earthly X-ray apparatus used in “Radiometallography”). His work consists in verifying and checking the recordings made to monitor periodically the state of the soil in the ground near the great underground mains. With this equipment one can appreciate not only the structure of the geological layers but their rock composition and their percentage of sand, clay and gravel or organic substances. Any significant alteration observed that might damage the pipes or mains is computed, encoded and sent to the Network of Computers that governs the organization of UMMO (XANMOO AYUBAA).
The wife is an adviser in NIAAIODOUI KEEAI (ART OF DISTRIBUTING PLANTS AND ROCKS AESTHETICALLY), but she is at present exempt from her obligations until her little son reaches the normal age and takes leave of his parents.
The working day is very short for our brothers on UMMO. In general it ranges between about 50 and 75 UIW (2.58 to 3.87 hours). This period is even shorter for those professions that demand intense intellectual work or active manual labour.
Once our social work obligations are fulfilled, we can devote the rest of the time to the home, to the Family, and to our intellectual, religious and technical training or to our recreation or ludic activity.
But so that you may understand the distribution of this time during the day, we must remind you that our DAY or “xii” is divided by us into 600 uiw (Every 25 uiw is equivalent to a little more than one earth hour (77.42 minutes)). So that when we say it is 450, you will understand that some 23.2 hours have passed since midnight. Midday will therefore be marked, as is easy to see, by 300 uiw.
Although the duration of our sleep is estimated for each of us by the physiological advice of the XANMOO AYUBAA (NETWORK OF COMPUTERS), you can take a “mode or modal value” (1) of 175 uiw as the time we spend in the “supine decubitus” position and fast asleep.
(1) The concept of MODAL VALUE or MODE, also studied by you in statistical Mathematics, must not be confused with the MEAN value (Except in the case of a normal or perfect Distribution).
It is “196 uiw”. The whole XAABI is silent. Tonight the acoustic protection panels, made of a completely transparent Germanium compound and serving us as a roof, have been closed. Not a single window communicates with the outside. Only an experienced ear can detect the very faint whistle produced by the air, suitably dosed as to temperature, humidity, ionization and ozonization, that is expelled by the nozzles of each IAXAABI (ROOM).
But it will not be so the following night, when the roof will be withdrawn automatically and the members of the family will sleep under the open sky.
Only heavy rain or snow, or the great WIIWIIAA storms in which the air carries even small particles of rock, breaks this sequence of sleeping alternately in an artificial environment or facing nature itself.
Our nights are intensely dark. We cannot enjoy, as earthlings do, that marvellous spectacle (which you forget, immersed in those monsters of concrete, asphalt and steel of the great metropolises) that is the lunar satellite. The stars we contemplate also appear very sharp when the celestial vault is clear of nebulous concentrations. On the other hand, what we call UULIBOOA (Equivalent to the earthly aurora borealis) is much more frequent than on the Planet Earth, even in equatorial latitudes. The sky then takes on an impressive appearance. Long green and purple ribbons seem to hang horizontally at various heights (As the latitude increases, the ribbons become more vertical). On the horizon, the green or magenta colouring turns pale yellow or faintly orange.
These UULIBOOA are frequent in periods of activity of our solar star IUMMAA. How difficult it is for us then to fall asleep, especially if we are children, contemplating the superb spectacle above our heads!
It is -we were saying- 196 uiw. On the horizon a soft glow between indigo and reddish begins to be glimpsed, typical of the appearance of IUMMAA. Outside the XAABI a temperature equivalent to 3 earth degrees centigrade is recorded.
Our brothers wake up calmly. Alarm mechanisms are unknown to us. The formation of habit by means of an efficient education of reflexes makes unnecessary those absurd instruments which, in you, injure certain centres of the neuroencephalon.
Although the time at which the period of sleep began differed for the various members of the family, there is on our Planet a rigid rule of discipline regulating the moment of waking.
Children and adults exchange greetings if they sleep in the same WOIWOIXAABI (BEDROOM), and immediately cover themselves with the GIUDUUDAA EEWE (A kind of porous cape: Spread out, it has the shape of a circle with a central hole through which the head is put and two smaller ones for the arms. (Image 1)
Today it is the YIE's (WIFE's) turn to prepare the aromatic essences for the ozonized steam bath.
But first each member of the family has the task of emitting the coded signals that will hide the WOIOA (FOAM BEDS) in which they spent the night. The foam is automatically compressed, dissolved by means of acids and removed through the liquid waste mains. Our brothers would not conceive of sleeping several times in the same bed (a culture medium for numerous germs). Only the toroidal ring that held it in the air remains, and it is withdrawn into its corresponding recess in the floor.
Now all the members of the small community gather in one of the IAXAABI (ROOMS). The Father will give the instructions for the day after they have all greeted one another by placing their hands on each other's chests, laughed and commented on various incidents of the previous night. The GEE then asked his Parents, wife and son for their opinions on what is to constitute the Plan of the day. After listening to everyone's reasoning, he finally decides what is to be done.
They all now hurry to prepare and select the clothes and instruments or tools they are to use during the day. Meanwhile the mother has stayed in one of the rooms, which is going to be turned into an EXAAB I (It can be translated as washroom). She makes a winding, flexible tube rise from the floor, with a large disc at its head bearing a multitude of nozzles or push-buttons. She operates the latter, making a multitude of atomized jets of perfume spring from the spray nozzles. She closes some and opens new ones, sniffing the mixture very attentively.
IAI KEAI (TRANSLATE AS THE ART OF MIXING AROMATIC ESSENCES) is a very old practice on UMMO. The YIE have always excelled far more than the men in this difficult art. The woman devotes some 7 uiw (About twenty minutes) to this careful and pleasant task, taking as much interest as the earthly housewife takes in seasoning her meals. The adult members of the family take turns daily at this work. It is not hard to notice, above all in the children, and therefore in the others too, grimaces of glee or ill-contained joy when it is the wife who will mix the essences that day. When a woman excels in this extremely difficult and ancestral art, the UMMOAELEWE confers distinctions on her and invites her to become an adviser or teacher at the UNAWO UI (UNIVERSITY).
Our olfactory sensitivity is much more educated than that of earthlings. The gap is analogous to the one we suffer, in reverse, with regard to music, of which earthlings are marvellous masters.
In the past we extracted the very rich range of IAI (PERFUMES) from aromatic plants, from shrubs and from some animal species similar to earthly molluscs. Today the variety has become much richer, and all of them are produced partly synthetically. We say partly because there is no lack of brothers who prefer, as a kind of rite, the pastime of selecting the plants in the forests and distilling them in their own home. It is a Hobby, as collecting postage stamps or carving ivory statuettes may be among you.
When the operator has found a mixture that satisfies her, she does not forget to record the dosage, suitably encoded, in her small AARBI OMAIU (This device is equivalent to earthly tape recorders, but the recording is made not on magnetic tape but in a memory made up of a chemically pure crystal of TITANIUM).
However, a woman who prides herself on being a good IAI YIEKEAI (MIXER OF ESSENCES) tries never to repeat a mixture unless she has achieved an exceptionally successful one. Our olfactory eidetism (MEMORY FOR SMELLS) is very great, and we recognize a known mixture as you identify a painting by attributing it to a particular famous artist.
An intelligent woman is not always a good mixer, and vice versa. For example, YU 1 daughter of AIM 368, our young leader to whom we who have been sent to Earth are subject, confesses to being a very bad mixer. Indeed, in that respect she would not be the ideal wife, were it not that we men of UMMO consider first other spiritual and intellectual factors as well as the beauty of the woman.
At last our sister in the description we were giving you has achieved a mixture she judges pleasant. Everyone waits smiling in another room for the bath to begin. At the wife's call the parents, the husband and the little one come. They place themselves around the inside of the EXAABI, and soon screens similar to Japanese folding screens rise from the floor.
Now they all undress. It is considered improper to see the nakedness of others, even if they are of the same sex. Meanwhile the closed atmosphere of the room becomes saturated with aromatized vapour. Water vapour with a high density of O3 (OZONE) and a multitude of aromatic components make up this first bath of the day. Meanwhile everyone laughs and chats through the thin partitions, and of course the successful sequences of the aromatization are praised. Do not forget: The mixtures follow one another throughout the session, as in a symphony of olfactory nuances.
