Please use the follow button to get notification about the latest chapter next time when you visit. I really cant recommend this alternately funny, sad, astonishing, silly, and disturbing book highly enough. In memoirs found in a bathtub, lem extrapolates affects of a cybernetic psychology to demonstrate how the arbitrary models it might build could proliferate, both in number and complexity, finally to subvert the process of discovering depth and meaning in our embodied experience through involvement in archetypal patterns and rituals. I am a huge fan of lem and i rate this highly among the works i have read. Memoirs found in a bathtub was published in english in 1973 it was originally published in polish. Youre read light novel memoirs found in a bathtub part 16 online at.
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