Anyone up for reading a theoretically-final-but-probably-not-yet-but-at-least-almost-final 39-pages (with like mby 4-6 pages of pure tables of the names) long BA thesis on the translation of neologisms in the form of names of characters in Lem's "Cyberiada" and pointing out any possible mistakes and/or corrections?

THE CYBERIAD - Stanisłav Lem (1965)

FIASCO - Stanisław Lem (1986)

I couldn’t make up my mind to have a child for the longest time; together with my wife we were quite opposed to the idea, both for reasons typical of people who think — and of people who suffered the German occupation, since, overall, the world appears to be a very badly constructed place to bring life into, especially given the kind of experiences we both had. Still — there is a time for dying and there is a time for living.

The flaw in your reasoning concerning the living in a totalitarian state is as follows. You cannot anticipate all the possible hardships and bad results caused by your decision of today, since there exists no known matrix of “payment” in such a situation: the official law must not of course say a single word about all the real harassments, awaiting the nonconformist. You must simply do what you think to be the best or the worst of the given case, and the rest belongs to the general unpredictability of all possible following events. No total rationalization is therefore possible. From other similar cases you will not extract any definite knowledge, since the situation being what it is, no case is truly similar to another; so there you have the free place for the play of imagination, and even if you will experience some unpleasant event, you will not be 100% sure, that THIS is the obvious result of your being nonconformist yesterday. This unpleasant event can be a pure coincidence too. Because of this, you can never be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN of anything. The less terrible the threat, the more we tend to judge a man who buckles under — you say. But this threat is always to an unknown degree determined by your subjective evaluation of the situation.

From some point on I started to repeat after my father that in our family everything generally ends rather well, albeit after countless complications.