"hereby I want to empower you to participate on our 'best robot 'competitioncy"." "Your application and the description of your robot made us curious as a cat before the mousehole." "With great excitement we await the presentation of your - as you call it:" "'sophisticatedly tinkered high-tech machine device'." "Tell me, how far is it to the 'Prozytic Planet'?" "Mr. Tichy?" "I didn't notice that you constructed something new." "When I came close to the planet 'Prozytia'," "I turned on the 'primary bragging mode'." "This lamp was used to show that one has a really terrific rocket." "and I wanted to show that I had the newest model of the rocket." "Thus, I went to the roof of the rocket, in order to see what was broken." "Soon I realized that the can containing the color was empty." "Do you have disturbances?" "I tinkered you with my own hands." "It's apparant, you are a machine device." "But Mr. Tichy!" "It's obvious that I'm no apparatus composed of single components." "She was colored." "So it came to my mind, where I had implemented the second coulor can." "I wish you a pleasant landing and welcome you to our 'Prozytic planet'." "Welcome!" "The demonstration of my 'halluzinetic' robot had to take place here, in the kitchen." "You're a damn robot; and machine devices don't get sick or miscalculates or is tired " "I bet it's the 'Mars measles' - at the minimum." "I thought about it - the error was caused by a bypass." "So I did a second bypass." "Maybe I was lucky and the error would go away." "Mr. Tichy, I'm here to tell you that we - the competition comission - will do the examination of your robot not until this evening." "That's better." "This year there is quite some competition, many high-tech robots." "If she only simulated a disease," "It came to my mind that maybe I was such an ingenious inventor and constructor that my creation was so equal to a human that she even could get ill." "These pox were proof!" "I was the greatest 'genius-head' that exists." "I wanted to use my time to see what the others in competition have built." "Ouch!" "Ouch!" "There is no door." "This hurts." "Ouch!" "This hurts." "Ouch!" "When I saw what my colleagues have built, my mood got better." "Winning this competition would be no problem." "Normally, I'm modest, but I have to clap me on my own shoulder and praise myself." "You got sick and infected me." "That's the proof!" "I'm a 'genius-head'!" "Well well, a genius, right?" "I think your most ingenious trait is, imagining things you would like to believe." "Err, my suggestion would be 'Idiotus Genius Pocus'." "Or 'Pocus imaginarius'." "Until the demonstration I have to be as fit as a fiddle again." "Now I was in a hurry." "I had to get well again very quickly." "So I looked for my 'Finnish whole-body sauna machine dress'." "Hello." "Down here." "Good Evening." "We're the competition commission." "Can't we have a tiny little look at the robot?" "Mr. Tichy said, it was such a great machine device." "Ms. Tichy, can you do us a favour and tell the great inventor, constructor Ijon Tichy that he hasn't got the slightest chance to win the competition with this." "Why, later people said, I only made up this story." "Bad people said, I had a weakness for alcohol, in which I indulge only covertly when I'm on earth, but when I'm on a long space journey unrestrainedly." "Only God knows all the rumours there are." "But that's how people are."