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Sofia Andrukhovych
hall, and how it had to stop
every few minutes for people
and their goats to clear the
tracks. What wild and dark
times those were!
And
now
photographic
cameras in minutes can
preserve for all eternity your
precise likeness, just like
a reflection in the mirror,
but even more perfect. A
telephone allows you to hear
instantaneously, though the
noisy thickets of air, howling
winds, tree trunks, and
rolling hills, someone located
so far that Margosches and
his high-speed automobile
would take a very long time
to get there. Roentgen’s
X-rays see through the human
body with all its innards.
And each smallest particle
the next day is broken down
into even smaller ones; they
move about, circle around
us,
everywhere,
inside
everything. It turns out that
matted hair does not result
from “cooking and eating
fish in the Jewish manner,”
that it cannot be described
as a male or female creature,
and cutting it off does not
lead to immediate death.
And bloodletting is not only
of limited effectiveness for
curing disease—it can even
do significant harm.
If it continues like this, physics
will even explain God. Some
couple of hundred years ago
for words like these I’d be
burnt alive next to city hall,
and I’d become the second
witch executed in our city.
Ifyouaskme,asfarasbelieving
in miracles is concerned,
let them be miracles for
entertainment purposes—for
example the performances
of world-famous Chevalier
Ernest Thorn, owner of the
Thorn Coliseum in Lviv, “the
enterprise for representing