Boring

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"Then come -- the Space Helmets! At first you may be alarmed, on noticing
that they appear to be fashioned from skulls. At least the upper dome of this
unpleasant headgear is certainly the skull of some manlike creature built to
a larger scale. . . . Perhaps Titans lived under this mountain, and their
skulls got harvested like giant mushrooms. . . . the eye-sockets are fitted
with quartz lenses. Filters may be slipped in. Nasal bone and upper teeth
have been replaced by a metal breathing apparatus, full of slots and grating.
Corresponding to the jaw is a built-up section, almost a facial codpiece, of
iron and ebonite, perhaps housing a radio unit, thrusting forward in black
fatality. For an extra few marks you are allowed to slip one of these helmets
on. Once inside these yellow caverns, looking out now through neutral-density
orbits, the sound of you breath hissing up and around the bone spaces what
you thought was a balanced mind is little help. . . .The milk calabashes
appear to be made from some plastic. On the spot where tradition sez Enzian
has his Illumination, in the course of a wet dream where he coupled with a
slender white rocket, there sis the dark stain,  . . . . . Imipolex G"
             p. 296-7, Penguin edition, GR

V.
Darth Vader
skulls, scalps, eye sockets, inserts, iron and ebonite, drills and
penetrations, rockets and robots, humans and not quite humans