Slawomir mrozek biography of abraham

Bathurst by Rudyard Kipling, Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter. Dutta Writes a Letter. Grossman's Paper Company Inc. Henderson Presents. Palfrey at the Claremont. Parker and the Vicious Circle. Simply put, the feature article, although it enjoyed several weeks of publicity and gave the twenty-year-old a job in the newspaper, in retrospect, is no different from any other popular feature article at the time.

Bombastic, written in a melodic way, it was perfectly impersonal. I stared at the volunteer workers, from the Service of Poland, digging ditches, undressed to their waist — as the weather was dreamlike — wearing faded, identical side caps and identical wide pants. And the amazing thing is that I wrote this without a bit of cynicism. This is not the end of vivisection.

It was the historical screening of the film by Leni Riefenstahl about Hitler in his pre-war time, in honor of whom the Parteitag was organized in Nuremberg. Suddenly I was all ears and discovered distant echoes of that time. Volunteer workers, not soldiers yet, but young people, in sports T-shirts, were marching obediently, unarmed, holding shovels though.

A solemn and serious mood on the eve of events of extreme importance, but for now, silence, hush. It reminded me of something. The unbearable pomposity of it all was ridiculous and repulsive. There was a fascination with power, inevitability — and at the same time a complex combination of ambition, self-admiration and a dream of growing out of post-war muddy soil.

Slawomir mrozek biography of abraham

The story was a seemingly cheerful satire on the deficiencies of centrally controlled trade, with no interest in anything like real demand, without any conscience of phenomena such as advertising or market research. A transport from the Central Headquarters appears in the large city store — a transport of half-armor — a steel element of armor indispensable to 17th-century hussars who want to protect themselves from an arrow or a lance aimed at their chest, but perfectly unnecessary to anyone three hundred years later.

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