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Article: The Pseudo-Utopian Cosmographies of Stanislaw Lem.
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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"... it turns out that today there are more lunatics in any given minute than all the people who lived on Earth for the last several dozen generations. It is as if all previous humanity consisted, today, of madmen.... The picture of what people do to people, to humiliate them, degrade them, exploit them, whether in sickness, in health, in old age, in childhood, in disability--and this incessantly, every minute--can stun even a confirmed misanthrope...."
-- Lem, One Human Minute, 16.
"One could say that the job of literature is not primarily to entertain, move, and cheer us up, but as Conrad said, to `bring the visible world to justice.'"
-- Lem ...