"Stanislaw Lem - The Cyberiad" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lem Stanislaw)

THE SEVEN SALLIES OF TRURL AND KLAPAUCIUS

The First Sally, or The Trap of Gargantius

The First Sally (A), or Trurl's Electronic Bard

The Second Sally, or The Offer of King Krool

The Third Sally, or The Dragons of Probability

The Fourth Sally, or How Trurl Built a Femfatalatron to Save Prince
Pantagoon from the Pangs of Love, and How Later He Resorted to a
Cannonade of Babies

The Fifth Sally, or The Mischief of King Balerion

The Fifth Sally (A), or Trurl's Prescription

The Sixth Sally, or How Trurl and Klapaucius Created a Demon of
the Second Kind to Defeat the Pirate Pugg

The Seventh Sally, or How Trurl's Own Perfection Led to No Good

Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius

Altruizine

FROM THE CYPHROEROTICON, OR TALES OF
DEVIATIONS, SUPERFIXATIONS AND ABERRATIONS OF THE
HEART

Prince Ferrix and the Princess Crystal




THE CYBERIAD
 How the World Was Saved


One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could create anything
starting with n. When it was ready, he tried it out, ordering it to make needles, then
nankeens and negligees, which it did, then nail the lot to narghiles filled with nepenthe and
numerous other narcotics. The machine carried out his instructions to the letter. Still not
completely sure of its ability, he had it produce, one after the other, nimbuses, noodles,
nuclei, neutrons, naphtha, noses, nymphs, naiads, and natrium. This last it could not do,
and Trurl, considerably irritated, demanded an explanation.

"Never heard of it," said the machine.