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“Not everything everywhere is for us, he thought as he walked slowly downhill.”

from The Invincible by #StanisławLem (1964)

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"We have this body of ours, a troublesome piece of luggage, we really don't know anything about it and we need all sorts of Tools to find out about its most natural processes. Isn't it scandalous that last time a doctor wanted to check what was happening in my stomach he made me have a gastroscopy? I had to swallow a thick tube, and it took a camera to reveal the inside of my stomach to us. The only course and primitive Tool gifted us for consolation is pain. The angels, if they really do exist, must be splitting their sides laughing at us. Fancy being given a body and not knowing anything about it. There's no instruction manual."

from Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by #OlgaTokarczuk (2009, English trans. 2018)