“My vision is getting blurry. Tock, are all these people spinning?” Milo asked.
“Mine is too . . . I can't quite see,” Tock replied, straining his eyes.
“Ohhhegguah . . .” moaned the Humbug dizzily.
“Well of course they are! You're in Vertigo!” said the man selling the powders.
“Oh, well, what are those then?” Tock inquired.
“Why they're peoplegraph powders! They go on your feet to make hypotrochoids on the ground with a peoplegraph! A peoplegraph is like a spyrograph, only with people!”
“Oh, that's very interesting! Goodbye now!” said the Humbug hurriedly, pulling his companions away.
“Boy, I couldn't see a thing in there!” said Milo.
“I'm very glad we didn't go in farther!” Tock exclaimed.
“And most of all, we're on normal ground and eyesight!” exclaimed Humbug quite happily.
And so they kept walking on unpatterned ground with normal eyesight (and Milo and Tock with some bright ochre and magenta people powders) . . .
(Lucia)