Stanislaw Lem
- Let's have a love poem (Cyberiad)
Very well. Let's have a love poem, lyrical, pastoral, and expressed in the language of pure mathematics. Tensor algebra mainly, with a little topology and higher calculus, if need be. But with feeling, you understand, and in the cybernetic spirit.
Stanislaw Lem
- Dichoticans (Star Diaries)
The Dichotican theologians, later, would throw up their hands in amazement upon hearing from me that on Earth we didn't think in this fashion, that there were churches which concerned themselves with one thing only, namely the hereafter ahead; that it was upsetting for people to think that someday they would be no longer, but not equally upsetting for them to consider the fact that earlier they had never been.
Stanislaw Lem
- The greatest of criminals (Star Diaries)
Yet what is burial but collaboration through a game of hide-and-seek? The point being to dispose of the body, as accomplices are won't to do; on the tombstones various inconsequential things are written, save the only one that is material: for if people would but dare to look the truth in the eye, they would be carving there instead a couple of the more pungent profanities, addressed to Mother Nature, for it is she who got us into this.
