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You just keep putting stuff in smaller and smaller Matryoshka dolls and then poof! No more stuff.
by awkward 5y ago
You just keep putting stuff in smaller and smaller Matryoshka dolls and then poof! No more stuff.
- selfhoster11 5y agoFrom "Mortal Engines" by Stanisław Lem: > Pyron invented the wire telegraph, and then he pulled the wire out so fine, it wasn't' there, and in this fashion he obtained the wireless... (https://english.lem.pl/works/novels/mortal-engines/136-introduction-mortal-engines https://english.lem.pl/works/novels/mortal-engines/136-intro...) I always loved that passage and it would always crack me up from the sheer absurdity of it.
- e3bc54b2 5y agoAside from obviously great quote, thanks for reminding me of Stanislaw Lem and Pyron. I grew up reading translations of old Russian books and (I know he was Polish) your comment was a good walk on the memory lane