He found himself on a ship full of ghost sailors. The ghost sailors were attacking him, trying to kill him and turn him into a ghost. He was in a room with two ghost sailors. He said to himself, "If I stab these ghosts with this sharp pencil, perhaps they will die." He stabbed a ghost with the sharp pencil, and the ghost was able to go on into the next world. The ghost said to him, "Thank you, for now I am able to pass on, and will no longer be a tormented ghost." The ghost disappeared. He killed all the ghosts in this way. But there was one ghost left, the last ghost on the ship. He looked to the Book, and the Book said if one stabs the last ghost 17 times in the back with the sharp pencil, the last ghost will be able to pass on. He began to stab the last ghost with the sharp pencil, attacking him in the back. The last ghost was stabbed 17 times in the back with the sharp pencil. He did not disappear. Suddenly all the other ghosts came back. They were getting ready to attack him, as tormented ghosts will do, but were still somewhat scattered and confused. He said to the last ghost, the one whom he had stabbed 17 times with the sharp pencil, "How is this? For I did precisely what the Book said to do." The last ghost said, "When you do things that a Book says to do, merely because the Book says it, you only make things worse." "Another rule," he said. "Perhaps they should have put that in the Book." "You still have no understanding of these things," said the last ghost. "But look, now you must flee, for we shall gather ourselves together and attack you." And the man fled, still foolishly thinking the Book ought to have been correct.