As more and more norms disappear from social praxis, literature faces ever-growing difficulties. Its predicament is beginning to resemble that of a child who has discovered that his incredibly understanding parents will let him break with impunity all his toys, indeed everything in the house. The artist cannot create specific prohibitions for himself in order to attack them later in his work; the prohibitions must be real, and hence independent of the writer's choices. And since the relativization of cultural norms has not so far been able to disturb the given characteristics of human biology, that is where writers today seek the still perceptible points of resistance--which is why literature is preoccupied with the theme of sex.
Stanisław LemSuch labor follows in the steps of Freud, who has become the Ptolemy of psychology, for now, with him, anyone can explain human phenomena, raising epicycles upon epicycles...
Stanisław LemGeneral Apollon Diaz was currently in power and leaned toward the position of the hawks, which was to meet force with force. The proposal had already been made at Parliament (which stood in permanent emergency session) to counterattack: to pull twice the number of teeth from the political prisoners the abductors were demanding and mail them poste restante, as the address of guerrilla headquarters was unknown.
Stanisław LemStichwörter: the-futurological-congress
This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, a civilization superior to our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past.
Stanisław Lem- Не зная. Ако съм сигурен, че това не са хора.
- Там е работата, че в известен смисъл са хора. Субективно са хора. Те съвсем не си дават сметка за своя... произход. Навярно си забелязал това?
No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.
Stanisław LemStichwörter: reading books literacy culture
We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. Modesty forbids us to say so, but there are times when we think pretty well of ourselves. And yet, if we examine it more closely, our enthusiasm turns out to be all sham. We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos....
We are humanitarian and chivalrous; we don't want to enslave other races, we simply want to bequeath them our values and take over their heritage in exchange. We think of ourselves as the Knights of the Holy Contact. This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. (1970 English translation)
Stichwörter: science-fiction chauvinism imperialism self-image racism space-exploration jingoism new-worlds
El ser humano ha emprendido el viaje en busca de otros mundos, otras civilizaciones, sin haber conocido a fondo sus propios encondrijos, sus callejones sin salida, sus pozos, o sus oscuras puertas atrancadas.
Stanisław LemJakże fałszywe i niemądre jest lękanie się śmierci jako stanu, który zasługuje raczej na apologię! Cóż może się równać z doskonałością nieistnienia? Zapewne, prowadząca doń agonia, jako taka, nie stanowi zjawiska atrakcyjnego, ale z drugiej strony nie było jeszcze nikogo tak słabego duchem czy ciałem, kto by jej nie wytrzymał i nie potrafił całkowicie, bez reszty i do samiuteńkiego końca skonać.
Stanisław LemOmnipotence is most omnipotent when one does nothing!
Stanisław LemStichwörter: fables-for-the-cybernetic-age stanislaw-lem the-cyberiad
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