Mantis found Arrhodes just before he took his last breath. She tucked his body in, and so they lay, through the two days of the blizzard,...

The final run-up. Although there is still quite a way to run. “Days become weeks, weeks months”. The Machine-Mantis runs in a frenzy,...

And so, the last post of this year. At the northern border, chilly, the wind is blowing. Periods of time set out by the revolutions of an...

According to present-day knowledge, everything that can ever be said to exist must at some point appear and disappear at another, never...

As I have certainly written already (my plan is not to go back to my earlier posts, so if I’m repeating myself, so be it), working with...

Lem notices and depicts an important truth – about dualism and polarity of the world. Much in The Mask seems to exist in duality, in an...

I was about to move on when he rose and, brushing from his sleeve the hanging fringe of the brocade, as if to indicate the comedy was...

The work, according to the text, is emerging in two phases: the ball and the romance in the form of the girl, right up until the...

This week, like the previous week, was still so much under the sign of the Siren that it was a little harder for me to focus on The Mask....

The most momentous, most intense experiences in our life since its very beginning are related to faces. When sharp vision does not reach...

… i jest też Maska o noszeniu w łonie nowego życia. Bohaterka pod postacią dziewczyny czuje w brzuchu dziwny ciężar, obły, twardy...

The Mask is also about power. About lies and villainy. The short story can be interpreted as a scathing satire on a weak king, who holds...

The Girl-Machine is born into this world at a production line, actually. At the beginning, she is lying down, moving along some hooks,...

I must confess, with a certain doze of embarrassment, that it is only now that I've come to realise how significant, in the context of...

Off I went. I’ve got the beginning, and it will most probably stay this way. Three explosions of a chord, composed of B major and C-sharp...

In the beginning there was darkness and cold flame and lingering thunder. bu'u lo incipe pu manku je lenku fagri gi'e zukyde'a lidvru lo...

The libretto, apart from the fact that it (almost/rather) gained its final shape, also went a long way in terms of language choice. The...

The time when there is nothing left to do but start writing music itself can be extremely tiring. Everything is already set; the...

The piece enters a special phase, when everything around it starts to seem meaningful in different ways. On my way to Gdańsk and back, I...

In high school I had a short, but very intense phase of being fascinated by sciences, especially physics. In the last grade, driven by an...