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you have come out of the trees so recently

You have come out of the trees so recently, and your kinship with the monkeys and lemurs is still so strong, that you tend toward abstraction without being able to part with the palpable—firsthand experience. Therefore a lecture unsupported by strong sensuality, full of formulas telling more about …

—p.127 Imaginary Magnitude Golem XIV: Golem’s Inaugural Lecture—About Man Threefold (127) by Stanisław Lem
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belles-lettres

That is surely why it has no regard for belles-lettres.

—p.114 Golem XIV: Foreword (99) by Stanisław Lem
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peremptory

participating in conversations with GOLEM requires people to have patience and above all self-control, for from our point of view it can be arrogant and peremptory.

—p.113 Golem XIV: Foreword (99) by Stanisław Lem
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theodicy

all of which, translated into conventional theodicean language, signifies the coexistence in the same Universum of God, his total absence, and his complete opposite in Satan.

—p.73 Juan Rambellais et. al., A History of Bitic Literature, Volume I:Introduction to the Second Edition (70) by Stanisław Lem
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whether people really think

So the Cogito paradox made itself known to us in bitistics in an ironic and at the same time startling manner: as despair on the part of machines as to whether people really think! The situation suddenly acquired a perfect bilateral symmetry. We humans are unable to achieve complete certainty (as…

—p.65 Juan Rambellais et. al., A History of Bitic Literature, Volume I: Introduction (41) by Stanisław Lem