‘The whatchamaycallim says we can’t do this.’ ‘Why does he say we can’t do it?’ asked a third. ‘Because you just can’t!’ Bastian screamed. ‘You can’t just smash everything up!’ ‘The whatchamaycallim says we can’t smash everything up,’ the first butterfly-clown informed the others. ‘We can too!’ said another, tearing a big chunk out of the tower. Hopping about like a lunatic, the first called down to Bastian: ‘We can too!’

