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Published Works NOVELS 1966 Pornografia [Calder & Boyars],[Grove] 1965 Cosmos [Kultura],[Grove] 1952 Trans-Atlantyk [1970: Institute Litéraire SARL],[Yale University] 1939 the Possessed, or the Secret of Myslotch - serialized under pseudonym Nienaski [newspaper Express Wieczorny] 1937 Ferdydurke SHORT FICTION 1957 Bakakaj 1933 Memoirs of a Time of Immaturity PLAYS 1966 Operetta 1952 Princess Ivona 1947 the Marriage DIARIES 1966 (Diary Three) [Northwestern University
Press] 1962 (Diary Two) [Northwestern University Press] 1957 Dziennik (Diary One) [Instytut Literacki],[Northwestern University Press] |
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From Cosmos:
'Well, my young friend, we are beginning to understand each other, as you see. It's really very simple. Men like... men like... what? They like love-making. They like berg.'
'Well, my young friend, we are beginning to understand each other, as you see. It's really very simple. Men like... men like... what? They like love-making. They like berg.'
'Berg.'
'I beg your pardon?'
'Berg.'
'What do you mean?'
'Berg.'
'Oh no, that's enough. Stop it.'
'Berg.'
'Ha ha ha ha! So you've bamberged me. You're a deep one. You're a sly one.
Who would have imagined that? You're a double, triple, superberger. That's the spirit. That's
the spirit. Three cheers for berg.'
I looked at the ground. Again I found myself absorbed in the ground, the
grass, and little clumps of earth. How many thousands and millions of them were there?
'Lick.'
'What?'
'Lick, I say, lickberg or spitberg.'
'What did you say?' I exclaimed. 'What did you say?'
'I said lickberg or spitberg.'
The meadow, the trees, the tree-trunk. A pure choice. A pure coincidence.
I must not lose my head. It was by pure chance that he had said 'spitberg', and he had said
nothing about spitting in the mouth. No, I must not lose my head. He was not talking about me.
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