By Stanislaw Lem
ISBN-10: 0156849054
ISBN-13: 9780156849050
Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters extraordinary civilizations and creatures in house that serve to satirize technology, the rational brain, theology, and different icons of human delight. Line drawings via the writer. Translated via Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff publication
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Sianko, Wyściótka lewej szuflady biurka I. Tichego—manuskryptem jego nie publikowanych prac; Vol. XVI Tichiana Series, p. 1193 ff. 2 O. J. Burberrys, Kinship As a Function of Velocity in Family Travels; Vol. XVII Tichiana Series, p. 232 ff. See also R. Z. Hemp, Relatives and Relativity (Xerox: Brasilia), pp. 482-512. 3 Dr, S. Hopfstosser, Das epistemologisch Unbestreitbare in einem Traume von Ijon Tichy; spec. ed. Tichiana Series, Vol. VI, p. 67 ff. 4 E, M. Sianko, A. Hayseed and W. U. Kałamarajbysowa, A Frequency Analysis of the Linguistic Beta-spectra in the Texts of I.
The skillet flew out of his hand, and I went crashing into a wall: we had fallen into a new vortex. Once again the ship shook, as if in a fever, but my only thought was to get to the corridor where the spacesuit was hanging and put it on. For in that way (I reasoned) when Wednesday became Thursday, I, as the Thursday me, would be wearing that spacesuit, and if only I didn’t take it off for a single minute (and I was determined not to) then I would obviously be wearing it on Friday also. And therefore the me on Thursday and the me on Friday would both be in our spacesuits, so that when we came together in the same present it would finally be possible to fix that miserable rudder.
The map indicated a number of other large gravitational vortices up ahead, therefore I could count on the duplication of the present within the next few days. I decided to write myself a letter and pin it to the pillow, enabling the Monday me, when he awoke, to see for himself that the dream had been no dream. But no sooner did I sit at the table with pen and paper than something started rattling in the engines, so I hurried there and poured water on the overheated atomic pile till dawn, while the Monday me slept soundly, licking his lips from time to time, which galled me no end.
The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy by Stanislaw Lem
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