diogenes said through a speaking tube from inside the rubber suit that his brother , the viceroy , had brought back for him as a gift from charismatic k. the suit was composed of a transparent rubber that encapsulated the naked diogenes whole and contained a kind of clear pink fluid that was pumped in through a hose connected to a vast glass dome in the middle of the grand ballroom that contained tens of thousands of drowned kittens floating around in a pink herbal tea .