"In a rocket a person can burst like a bubble, or solidify completely, or boil, or explode in a fountain of blood so quickly he doesn't have time to shout out, and then only his bones will be clattering against the metal, and they'll go on circling in Newtonian orbit with an Einsteinian adjustment, our rattles of progress! And we'll go willingly, because it's a beautiful journey, till we arrive, and in these cabins, over this tableware, amid the immortal dishwashers, with our serried ranks of faithful lockers, our devoted toilets, here is our fulfillment."
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Science fiction authorsJews from PolandPhilosophers from PolandEssayists from PolandSatirists from Poland
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Ch. 12: "The Dreams" (2011 Johnston translation)
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Stanisław Lem
1921 – 2006
polnischer Schriftsteller
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