Lem's last work, a 2005 essay "Głosy z sieci" ("Voices from the Net"), contained answers to questions from Russian internet users to Lem. It was revealed there that Encyclopaedia Cosmica was a hoax. Speculations about sepulkas and their "pornosphericity" must be dismissed. In Observation on the Spot it is revealed that the planet Enteropia does not exist and was a camouflage for the planet Entia. The clerk and other customers are shocked and appalled by his attempt and Tichy is forced to leave. Eventually Tichy decides to purchase a sepulka, but when asked by a clerk where his wife is he admits he's a bachelor. Sepuling – an activity of Ardrites from the planet of Enteropia see " Sepulka"Īlthough omnipresent in art and commercials of the alien civilisation Tichy visits, discussions of sepulkas is taboo and Tichy's attempts to learn about them are seen by the locals as a faux pas.Sepulkaria – sing: sepulkarium, establishments used for sepuling see " Sepuling".
Sepulka – pl.: sepulkas, a prominent element of the civilization of Ardrites from the planet of Enteropia see " Sepulkaria".The Encyclopaedia Cosmica gives the following definitions: Lem never explains what they are and what their use is. Sepulkas were first mentioned by Lem's interstellar traveller Ijon Tichy during his fourteenth voyage. A fictional encyclopedia lists them as "objects used for sepuling". Hailed as "the most completely successful of books," The Cyberiad is an outrageously funny and incomparably wise collection of short stories, taking an insightful look at mechanics, technology, invention, and human ambition ( The Boston Globe).Sepulkas (also sepulcas or scrupts in English translation), are fictional objects found in works The Star Diaries and Observation on the Spot, Stanisław Lem.
Friends and rivals, they are constantly outdoing and challenging each other to reveal the next great evolution in cybernetics, and the exploits of these brilliant men are nothing short of incredible.įrom tales of love, in which a robotic prince must woo a robotic princess enchanted by pleasures of true flesh, to epics of battle, in which the heroic constructors must use their considerable wit to outsmart a monarch obsessed with hunting, to examinations of humanity, wherein Trurl and Klapaucius must confront the limits of their skills and the meaning of true perfection, these stories are rich with profound questions, unimaginable marvels, and remarkable feats. These are the stories of Trurl and Klapaucius, master inventors and engineers known as "constructors," who have created marvels for kingdoms. "Lem has an almost Dickensian genius for vividly realizing the tragedy and comedy of future machines." - The New York Times Book Review
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