October 2017
John M. 's Reviews
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How could these cats have trusted Marx in the first place, holed up in a London flophouse, blotto on cheap Brandy, burning with revenge for the bourgeoise who had made fun of him. Marx famously quipped that “Religion is the opium of the people,” but any Import-Export expert (an international euphemism for “chronic unemployment”) knows that instead real opium is. A little bit miffed later, I discovered that I had been “scooped” by Dava Sobel and her fairly recent book “A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos”! Chuck it in your Amazon.com cart and speed to the checkout. Like a premonition, I theorized about the secret of international time travel—involving moving faster than a photon. And so once again I boarded the relativistic time-lapsed train out of Torun (someone nicked my “machine”!). Safely on board, I imagined I caught sight of that Hermés-heeled mercurial heretic devil Copernicus in the maelstrom of smoke and mirrors, fashionably cloaked in a plush Renaissance robe and holding up an antique globe evocative of my skull and (yes) laughing at me. This wasn’t over yet, Copper, no, not by a longshot! (Muzeum Mikolaj Kopernika [ul. kopernika 15 + 17].) .... |
