Story av Stanislaw Lem: ju mer framstående du är, desto kortare är ditt namn

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Jag försöker spåra en historia av Stanislaw Lem för min far. Han trodde att det var titeln "Citizen O", men det verkar inte finnas någon sådan historia. Det handlar om en värld där ju mer framstående du är, desto kortare är ditt namn. Det är allt jag vet, tyvärr.

    
uppsättning Tal 08.06.2016 15:29

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Detta är från Lems Star Diaries , precis vid början av den trettonde voyage. Det var "Master Oh" , inte "Citizen O".

[...] one of the most distinguished individuals in our Universe, Master Oh. [...] Children born on Fatamiasma recieve an enormous number of titles and distinctions as well as a name that is, by our standards, inordinately long.

The day Master Oh came into the world he was called Hridipidagnittusuoayomojorfnagrolliskipwikabeccopyxlbepurz. And duly dubbed Golden Buttress of Being, Doctor of Quintessential Benignity, Most Possibilistive Universatilitude, etc, etc. From year to year, as he studied and matured, the titles and syllables of his name were one by one removed, and since he gave evidence of uncommon abilities, by the thirty-third year of his life he was relieved of his last distinction, and two years later carried no title whatever, while his name was designated in the Fatamiasman alphabet by a single and - morover - voiceless letter, signifying "celestial aspirate" - this is a kind of stifled gasp which one gives from a surfeit of awe and rapture.

    
svaret ges 09.06.2016 07:23