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ardent, unfailingly attentive, and uncompromising readers

One thing, however, can be said with absolute certainty. Before the use of machine intelligence no thinker or author ever had such ardent, unfailingly attentive, and uncompromising readers! That is why, in the cry that burst from the lips of a certain first-rate thinker when he was offered, by MENT…

—p.63 Imaginary Magnitude Juan Rambellais et. al., A History of Bitic Literature, Volume I: Introduction (41) by Stanisław Lem
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solely among manufacturers of trivial literature

Once it had become an industry, mimesis led to unemployment, but solely among manufacturers of trivial literature (sci-fi, porn, thrillers, and the like): there indeed it supplanted humans in the supply of intellectual goods—which ought not to cause an honest humanist too much despair.

—p.61 Juan Rambellais et. al., A History of Bitic Literature, Volume I: Introduction (41) by Stanisław Lem
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a novel by Pseudodostoevsky

The first work of bitic mimesis to gain world renown was a novel by Pseudodostoevsky, The Girl (Devochka). It was composed during a phase of relaxation by a multimember aggregate whose assignment was to translate into English the collected works of the Russian writer. In his memoirs the distinguish…

—p.57 Juan Rambellais et. al., A History of Bitic Literature, Volume I: Introduction (41) by Stanisław Lem
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bacterial futurology

The author’s supreme achievement was the breeding of Gulliveria coli prophetissima and Proteus delphicus recte mirabilis. These strains predict the future, and not only within the range of occurrences affecting their own vegetation. R. Gulliver believes that the mechanism of this phenomenon is of a…

—p.34 Reginald Gulliver, Eruntics: Introduction (23) by Stanisław Lem
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a false promise of carnal bliss

For pornography is not directly obscene: it excites only as long as there is a struggle within the viewer between lust and the angel of culture. When the devils carry off the angel; when, as a result of general tolerance, the weakness of sexual prohibitions—their complete helplessness—is laid bare;…

—p.17 Cezary Strzybisz, Necrobes: Introduction (11) by Stanisław Lem