"a few reptiloid atomineers, two or three green sylph-like maximegalaticians, an octopodic physucturalist or two and a Hooloovoo (a Hooloovoo is a super-intelligent shade of the colour blue). All except the Hooloovoo were resplendent in their multi-coloured ceremonial lab coats; the Hooloovoo had been temporarily refracted into a freestanding prism for the occasion."
