"Eleven... twelve..." "Thirteen... fourteen..." "I couldn't go on" "Dad?" "Could you think of something, Dad?" "Kermit running away." "From Miss Piggy... riding a sledge at sixty-two kilometers per hour" "Piggy chasing him, skiing at eighty-seven kilometers per hour" "How much later has she left?" "Three minutes" "Fix the numerical value" "It'll catch up 626seconds later" "I made it, Dad" "She'll catch up with him in ten minutes and twenty-six seconds!" "Hi" "Come on in" "Cold, isn't it?" "Say, somebody dies abroad" "Would his obituary be published, too?" "Possibly..." "You see, there are paid ads You pay, they publish °¶" "Why do people die?" "It depends..." "Heart failure cancer..." "Accidents, or just old age..." "I mean, what is death?" "Death?" "The heart ceases to pump blood..." "Blood fails to reach the brain..." "Everything stops... stops dead and that's it" "What remains?" "Everything you did" "The memory of what you did, of you as a person" "Memory's quite important, I guess" "You remember there was somebody who walked with a funny leap, or who was a kind man" "You remember his face, his smile..." "the gap in his front teeth..." "Come on, Pawel, not yet" "What do you want?" "It's too early" "Turned sour, eh?" "Yeah..." "It says here, a requiem mass..." "may her soul rest in peace..." "You never said anything about the soul" "It's just a way to bid farewell..." "There isn't any soul..." "Aunt Irena says there is..." "Some people just find life easier if they believe in it..." "What about you?" "Me?" "I really don't know" "What are you thinking about?" "It's nothing... it's just..." "I was so glad in the morning when I managed to get that calculation right" "And then the pigeon came for the bread crumbs" "But I went shopping and saw a dead dog" "I knelt over him, and I said to myself, what good is it?" "Who needs the information how long it will take" "Miss Piggy to catch up with Kermit" "It doesn't make any sense" "Which dog was it?" "The one with the yellow eyes" "You could always find him at the dust-bins" "Yes?" "Maybe he's better off where he is now." "How do you think" "We have visited School No 218 to talk to the head-master" "I see you distribute milk to the children" "Yes, We've made an arrangement with the dairy" "The children get a glass of milk each during the long break" "But this milk tastes foul The children pour it down the toilet!" "Not in our school, during the long break" "What is it that you've got?" "A guinea pig" "What for?" "I brought it to biology classes But the teacher is scared of it" "Look, it's got sharp teeth, hasn't it?" "Pawel!" "Just one more time!" "Pawel!" "What's for dinner?" "Soup and something to follow, right?" "Sure it is, I'm hungry" "Some TV people came to our school today" "Why?" "I don't know, something about milk They told us to run about" "Did you?" "Of course I did" "Want to take your bag home?" "Yes, I've got a great thing to show to you" "See?" "Stop at the door" "Which door?" "The front one" "O.K. I'm ready" "Now watch it, it's going to lock it..." "Has it?" "Yes" "Now it's going to unlock it" "So it has" "Go to the bathroom" "But don't touch anything" "Watch the tap" "Water" "Look what I programmed" "I got a letter from Mum, saying what she does during the day, hour after hour" "Well, I fed that into its memory, and I added the time difference, too" "It's now... thirty-three minutes past three...?" "Mama 15.33" "She's asleep" "Ask it what she's dreaming about" "what does she dreaming about?" "I do not know" "It doesn't know" "Do you know what you Mum's dreaming about?" "No, I guess I don't" "Why that's simple, you..." "Me?" "Of course" "She's dreaming about you" "Not about Dad?" "Who knows..." "Know what he's doing?" "More or less..." "Christ!" "What is it?" "I'm hungry" "Let's go" "I wish Dad let me try his one" "It would surely know what Mum's dreaming about" "Care for a race?" "O.K." "Do you want odds?" "Not today, well" "Go!" "That was good" "Want me to wash the dishes?" "No, thanks I'll do it" "I want to show you something" "Hey, Pawel" "Come here!" "That was when you brought that pink pen-case for me?" "Right, I had them developed" "Know who it is?" "Yes" "Is he... kind?" "Yes..." "And wise?" "How do you think..." "Does he know what people live for?" "I guess He does" "Dad says we all live to make life easier for those who come after us" "But sometimes we fail" "Yes, that's right Sometimes we fail" "You know..." "What matters in life is that you can do some thing for others help them..." "Whenever you do somebody a favor, no matter how small" "You feel they need you" "And then, life's easier" "There are big and small things you can do" "Say today, you liked the ravioli and that made me happy" "Life is a present" "a gift, you know" "I say" "Dad's you brother, right?" "Don't you know?" "Ah, you mean," "Why we're different?" "Your father and I..." "We grew up in a Catholic family" "But you Dad noticed very early that a lot of things could be counted and measured..." "And then he started to believe that everything could..." "He still thinks so today" "I guess he has doubts sometimes..." "but he won't admit it" "A life like your Dad lives may seem more reasonable" "But it doesn't mean there's no God ...for your Father, too..." "Know what I mean?" "I'm not sure" "There is God" "It's very simple... if you believe" "Do you?" "Do you believe in God?" "Yes" "Who is He?" "What do you feel?" "I love you" "Exactly..." "And this is what God is..." "Checkmate!" "That's would be too simple" "She's already won six games" "Checkmate" "Seven" "But look, she'll use the queen as a shield, and then we've got her where he want her" "Checkmate" "I told you..." "She plays routine games" "Well, what happens now?" "The bishop - and checkmate" "Checkmate" "Congratulations" "Thank you" "Is that you, Pawel?" "Yes" "Have you talked to your father?" "Hey, Dad..." "It's Aunt Irena" "Well?" "She wants to know if it's all right with you" "Irena?" "I enrolled him for religious instruction." "Has he told you?" "Well, if that's what he wants" "Of course, if that's what he needs" "I talked... to the priest" "Oh, you did?" "They're building a new church not far from your house" "The priest is a young man I think Pawel's going to like him" "How about tomorrow?" "No, thanks, I can manage..." "Well, bye" "Pawel..." "Did you switch it on?" "No, I never touched it" "Hey, mate" "what do you want?" "I am ready" "Switch yourself off, will you?" "What if - if it really wanted something?" "Like what?" "I don't know, but you asked him Hey, mate, what do you want?" "Just trying to be funny" "It's half past nine, time to bed" "Are you going out?" "Yeah..." "But I'll leave the lights on for you" "Have you checked the thermometer?" "Yes, it's fourteen degrees below zero" "Think Mum's going to phone before Christmas?" "I guess so" "Group one:" "Juda, judasz, judzic" "Group two:" "Podbechtywac, podskakiwac, podkopywac..." "Group three:" "Dranstwo, zaprzanstwo, swinstwo, koltunstwo, panstwo" "These are associative fields" "Now..." "Take a word which does not exist in the Polish language" "But which we find rather easy to understand" "The problem only arises when we try to translate it into another language" "In exceptional cases only, a foreign language become one's own intimate language" "We may have a very good rational knowledge ...of that language" "We may be able to use it to discuss most intricate problems" "Have an immense vocabulary" "But - that's it how could we get...?" "To what's hidden deep behind the separate words syllable and letters?" "How could we discover that language's cultural heritage?" "How could we formulate its connections with history, politics ...culture and everyday life" "How to know and understand...?" "...all that creates the spirit of a language, its metasemantics... or perhaps even its metaphpysics?" "According to Elliot, poetry is untranslatable" "But was Elliot necessarily right?" "Imagine a translator who is able to accumulate the entire knowledge there is about words or about a language" "A translator who has an unlimited memory... that can be drawn from any time" "Used in an unconventional way, a computer may be something - somebody - liomebody - like that" "Consider that instrument it seems to discern just two figures, zero and one" "But actually it not only has something that might be called intelligence but also a kind of consciousness it select which means it makes a choice" "Or perhaps it might be called conation?" "As I see it," "an appropriately... programmed computer may have... it's own taste" "Aesthetical preferences..." "Individuality..." "Ah, yes...!" "For our next class..." "Please choose a line of any text... and do what i did with that word I conceive myself" "I hope it's not too much for homework" "Is it?" "That's good" "Look, I left it here for one hour only" "Would tea freeze, too?" "Yes" "Just touch it" "Hey, be careful... it's glass" "Great, isn't it?" "Leave it in the tub..." "No, let's leave it here and check what happens" "Nothing, it's going to melt as soon as a thaw sets in, what else?" "Or maybe during the day, in the sun..." "Let's calculate it" "You promised?" "Oh, all right" "It would be wrong to assume that the temperature never goes up" "Say, it's below zero during the night only About ten hours" "But we need precise data" "O.K." "All right, call the Meteorological Institute and ask them... about the temperature near the ground today yesterday, and the day before yesterday" "Hello..." "Is this the Meteorological Institute?" "I need information about the temperature near the ground, please... today..." "Yesterday..." "And the day before yesterday" "Yes, in Warsaw Thank you, good-bye" "What's the pressure formula?" "P equals F divided by S" "Fine..." "Now, the temperature?" "Eleven today, fourteen yesterday and twelve and a half the day before yesterday" "There's been frost for eight days now" "Well?" "As you see:" "Maximum load is 257kg/m2" "It means a fellow three times your weight ...can skate safely" "Really?" "Can I have them?" "Have what?" "What I was to get for Christmas, From Mum and you" "Can I have them?" "I found those skating boots..." "Where?" "In the counch..." "Can I have them?" "Lake depth: 3.5m" "Maximum load: 257kg/m2" "How's the size?" "They're perfect" "Well, then..." "Put off your clothes and go to bed" "I'm going for a walk by the time I'm back" "You asleep?" "No, I've been watching them shine" "I checked the ice" "That's why I couldn't sleep I guessed where you went" "It's all right" "But promise never to come close to where the river falls into the lake" "Keep a distance of fifteen meter, right?" "The river never freezes" "O.K., fifteen meters it is" "It's a shallow river but I don't want you to take a bath in it" "Where's your elephant?" "Asleep" "Is Pawel home?" "No, why?" "I don't know Mum wanted to know" "Good evening..." "Ewa Jezierski speaking..." "Is Pawel home?" "Marek hasn't returned yet..." "Oh, good evening, Madam No, Pawel isn't here" "But he's having the English lesson tonight, what time is it?" "Past four..." "They ought to be back by now" "They'll be back any minute" "For you see, something's happened..." "I don't know" "Something happened in the neighbourhood I'll go bring them back" "Piotrus!" "No, wait!" "My Coat" "Sonny!" "Is Pawel here?" "What's the matter with you?" "A nasty case of flu, I couldn't lecture today, I dismissed them" "When was that?" "Right after they came" "Where are they?" "I don't know" "Take it easy... come in!" "She's ill The boys aren't there" "The ice broke on the lake" "This can't be true" "It broke..." "Don't get excited It couldn't have" "But it did..." "Please go there" "I'll be all right" "Have you seen Pawel anywhere?" "At school, today morning" "He told me a dream he had" "But not now?" "No, he said he'd call me on the phone" "one, two, three, four, five ten..." "Pawel!" "Is that you, Irena?" "Has Pawel phoned you?" "You mean, when?" "Lately..." "Today?" "Yes, after school, I asked him to lunch but he couldn't, he had that English lesson" "He hadn't and that's the problem" "Where is he?" "I don't know... not here" "Is anything wrong?" "Well..." "The ink got spilled" "The ink bottle cracked and it got spilled, all of a sudden" "But I mean, is anything wrong with Pawel?" "I don't know" "They say the ice broke on the lake" "But he said, you figured it out" "The ice is strong enough" "They say it's cracked" "I'm coming" "I'm off to look for him" "Pawel?" "Where are you, Pawel?" "Over" "This is your father calling..." "Pawel?" "Over" "Mummy!" "Mummy..." "Jacek darling!" "Where have you been, sonny?" "We've been playing in that old car" "Come on, dear, we're going home" "Excuse me, sir Pawel was... to phone me in the afternoon" "Do you remember me, sir?" "That boy might know something" "Which boy?" "The small one, Jacek" "Please wait a moment" "He didn't play with us" "He skated on the lake!" "On the lake!" "I am ready..."