"What happened up to now on:" "SPACE PILOT..." "What's this?" " Some kind of feedback?" "The void-hole was back, dissolving the cosmos!" "It's bigger than I thought." "I'm outta here!" "Who was gonna fire the cannon into the void-hole!" "I had to find the professor." "Mel!" "The teleporter hole led to a foreign planet!" "I'm back home on my planet." "That is totally impossible." "That's not Mel's home." "Dr. Spamy, you have to shoot the cannon into the void!" "How sweet..." "Ok." "I admit it, I know exactly where this wormhole has led us." "SPACE PILOT The Star Diaries" "What's this?" "APPEARANCE AND REALITY PART II" "Where are we?" "Is this the other side of the void or are we in another galaxy?" "Professor Tarantoga!" "He must be here somewhere!" "Freely produced by themes from the novel "Star diaries" by Stanislaw Lem" "Tarantoga!" "This jackass!" "Now I was sure what he said about the void-hole wasn't true." "We're still alive, and there's something here and not nothing, huh?" "There must be another explanation for the hole in the cosmos." "Here!" "Come on!" " Where to?" "We have to go back." " How?" "Through that, huh?" "I think... this is the way we came!" "We're in Hell!" " Come on!" "Get on the other one." "Do it!" "Do it!" "Are you a scaredy-rat like this Tarantoga guy?" "Hello?" "Am I dead now?" "Fly straight for once, you ugly trunk-hen!" "I was shocked!" "We were teensy-weensy!" "And had been sucked into the vacuum cleaner!" "In front of you!" "Watch out!" "Look!" "We were never on a foreign planet." "We were in your potted plant the whole time." "That's why the vegetation seemed so familiar!" "The wormy hole had shrunk us." "And how do we get big again?" "Does it work backward?" "You stupid appliance!" "Catch me if you can, you miserable void!" "Just you wait!" "She can't see us, we have to go back... to the flowerpot, to the wormy hole!" "Come on!" "Catch me!" "Let's find the way to the wormy hole." "We can get bigger through the teleporter and come back through the kitchen!" "Oh no." " I don't believe this." "Hey, look here." "Down here!" " Such a blind-bat!" "Spamy, when are you gonna fire the cannon into the damn void?" "Have Tarantoga or Tichy turned up yet?" "Maybe she's too stupid!" " Or we're too small!" "It was all over now." "We were trapped shrunk in a flowerpot... while the void hole was wiping out the universe." "Hallucinette had to turn on the teleporter again." "I had a brilliant idea... of how to send her a sign." "Come on!" "You're fat and ugly!" "Oh crap!" "It's working." "Mr. Tichy, he's coming!" "Left, left, left!" "Right, right, right!" "It's working!" "And the cannon?" "You have two left hands?" "Miroslav..." "Enough now!" "I have to put up with a lot from Mr. Tichy... but you're even worse." "A complete failure." "You really must be the biggest cosmic dumb-ass alive!" "Compared to you Mr. Tichy's a hero." "I would've bet all my fuses I'd never say this!" "Now we'll see if she is a sly-fox, huh?" "My stomach is rumbling again." "I don't understand the connection!" "Me neither!" "You know what you are?" "A loser!" "This whole time I was looking for my real home... my family." "But it was here all along... right in front of my nose!" "Hey, we're here..." "I'm in charge!" "What would Mr. Tichy do?" "In a critical situation he would... run away, that's it!" "We gotta get outta here!" "How dare you!" "An arrow?" "Where did that come from?" "Oh, the plug." "My invention." "A smart appliance?" "I said so, didn't I?" "Yeah..." "Let's go!" "You coming?" "Oh no." "Not again..." "Mr. Tichy, at last!" "What happened?" "It's getting bigger!" "No one can fire the cannon!" "Where's the vacuum cleaner?" "Tell me!" "It so nice of you to want to tidy up now, but..." "Tarantoga, you jackass." "Are you in there?" "Yes, I'm here." "Help!" "Answer if you hear me!" "He can't hear me, oh no!" "What an egghead!" " Yeah..." "You have to go back in the flower pot, okay?" "Such a show-off!" "What's with Mel?" " The Mel-fellow?" "He'll find his way back." "Crap!" "Again!" "Hey, jackass-professor, huh?" " Careful now!" "Go through the wormy hole to get to the kitchen." "I'm already on my way." "Oh, my back..." "Where am I now?" "If that worm comes again..." "Mel?" "Not together!" "My arm!" "I have my arm back!" "Where's the Mel-fellow?" "That was the solution." "A worm hole." "Through teleporter back coupling." "I have my arm again." "Where's Mel?" "What's that?" "What is the meaning of this?" " Ok, I'll explain." "This is..." "Mel." "He's not from a foreign planet." "He's my dog." "A watch dog, actually..." "He came to the Institute through the teleporter with this earth on his feet." "I was washing my dog's paws, after our walk, and by mistake I teleported him... together with my right arm." "Stupid of me." "I know." "The result was a fusion between my dog and my arm." "Mel!" "This is Mel's dog tag." "Those two creatures came about in the same foolish way." "Dr. Spamy wanted to send two eggs at once." "Out of curiosity, he stuck his trunk in the teleporter." "Idiot!" "I kept looking for a technical solution to reverse this fusion." "And now, at last, I have my arm back." "What about Mel?" " Mel." "Heel!" "Mel, you flee-ridden mutt." "Let's go home." "Be a little nicer to Mel." "Watch out, Tzushy!" "I've got two arms now!" "How about a black eye?" "He deserved that!" "Let's do it!" "No, no, I'm right-handed!" "At least let me keep my right hand!" "On the other side of my kitchen!" "My good arm!" " Home at last..." "Why are you all looking at me like that?" "Did something happen?" " No, no..." "What's wrong?" "Why is no one dealing with the void?" "I had the feeling that there was a direct connection... between me and the hole in the cosmos!" "Yes!" "I'll go and shoot my cannon." "We need to bring about a new evolution..." "Stop right there!" "Up to now nothing you've said has been true." "Not the green planet... not the Mel-fellow..." "So why should it be any different with this void-hole?" "I'm going to find the solution to this puzzle!" "I'd let it go." "There's nothing on the other side!" "Mel-fellow, can you take over the wheel?" "It's in good hands, all left up to me!" "And you..." "You rope me down?" "If there are any problems... it's all in your own hands." "The rope and Ijon Tichy!" "Let's go!" "And then Ijon Tichy fell into the void... and saw... that this hole was just an empty place in the story." "Because of my growling stomach, I couldn't concentrate any more... and had no ideas left." "The empty part of the story grew bigger." "What did you say?" "That's why the Star Diaries and the adventures of Ijon Tichy... had to come to an end forever." "The void-hole is just a hole in the universe?" "Because your head is empty and you have no more ideas for the story... because your stomach is hungry and grumbling." "Yes." "Are you as dumb as a doornail?" "I'm the cosmic hero Ijon Tichy... and I'll do... as I please!" "I'm Ijon Tichy!" "I type and you do what I type?" "Nothing!" "That's not an ending for the Hero of the Cosmos." "You're on your own now!" "I will not type you a happy ending into the story." "I'd rather make a yummy omelet." "Do it!" "No discussion!" "Go!" "It wasn't nice of him to sell me for only two eggs." "But if Hallucinette really wants to hang on to him..." "Yes, but the professor wasn't willing to give more than two eggs for you!" "That's irrelevant now." "But I'll make sure Tushy get's that black eye I owe him!" "Mr. Tichy, up here." "It's all weird!" "What's going on here?" "Nothing important!" "What are you doing?" "I didn't type that!" "Dr. Spamy came and threw his arms around Hallucinette, sobbing his heart out... making her drop the rope." " I think she likes me." "Dr. Spamy, your weird trunk's back?" "Yes, through the teleporter." " I couldn't have done this left handed!" "Just like I said, Mr. Tichy, there's nothing here." "You are right again, Professor!" "There's nothing here." "Hey, stop it now!" "This is not possible?" "I didn't type any of this!" "That... is science fiction for you!" "Anything's possible." "People later said... that I made the whole thing up." "Nasty people said that I secretly drank too much alcohol on earth..." "Let's get outta here." "Just a second..." "You are a loyal appliance... and you were right:" "I need to respect your equal rights in the rocket." "From now on..." "I will no longer call you an "appliance"." "I will call you "Miss Appliance"." "Now, step on the gas, Miss Appliance!" "Thank you, Tichy." "I'm still Mr. Tichy to you." "And now, let's go!" "I'll say it again." "Nasty people said... that I secretly drank too much alcohol on earth... but on long space voyages lost all inhibitions..." "And that Tushy, I told him there was nothing there!" "Professor?" "Since when do I have two left hands?" "That I'll save that story for later." "Oh no!" "Finally, a yummy omelet."