Entry 116,309 // We are approaching the speed of light. Hundreds of unknown phenomena. A new kind of elementary particle has made its appearance - squarks. Not very large, but noisy. Something peculiar is happening to my head. I remember that my father was Barnaby, but I had another named Balaton. Unless that's a lake in Albania. I must check in the encyclopedia. The aunts are buckling under, quantum by quantum, yet still gamely knitting away. Bad smell on the 3rd deck. Oliphant's child doesn't crawl now, it only flies, making use of the recoil from front and back discharges alternatively. Amazing, the organism's capacity for adaptation!
From Stanislaw Lem, Memoirs of a Space Traveller.
Solaris - the LEM station : http://www.lem.pl/cyberiadinfo/english/main.htm
Talks with Robots : http://www.lem.pl/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=english_cat;action=display;num=1087236037
Dzienniki gwiazdowe (1971) / The Star Diaries (New York, 1976), Memoirs of a Space Traveller (London, 1982)
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