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Imaginary Magnitude

Imaginary Magnitude
Stanisław Lem

This collection of futuristic prefaces to books of the twenty-first century ranges from the scientific to computer-generated literature

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“Not only does God play dice with the world—He does not let us see what He has rolled.”

Stanisław Lem book Imaginary Magnitude

Imaginary Magnitude" (1981), "Lecture XLIII", tr. Marc E. Heine (1984)

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“In an extreme instance, in which there is a Propervirt of less than 0.9%, the TEXT OF THE PRESENT PROSPECTUS may likewise undergo an ABRUPT change. If, while you are reading these sentences, the words begin to jump about, and the letters quiver and blur, please interrupt your reading for ten or twenty seconds to wipe your glasses, adjust your clothing, or the like, and then start reading AGAIN from the beginning, and NOT JUST from the place where your reading was interrupted, since such a TRANSFORMATION indicates that a correction of DEFICIENCIES is now taking place.”

Stanisław Lem book Imaginary Magnitude

Imaginary Magnitude (1984), p. 86

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