{"id":22043,"date":"2011-03-27T00:05:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T04:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=22043"},"modified":"2011-03-27T00:05:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T04:05:49","slug":"stanislaw-lem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/03\/27\/stanislaw-lem\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanislaw Lem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bhPYyU5OalI\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bhPYyU5OalI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>From Steven Soderburgh&#8217;s 2002 film adaptation of <\/em>Solaris. <em>This clip is especially\u00a0beautiful; you&#8217;ll want to see it (although it is not, unfortunately, embedded; click on the image and hit the YouTube link)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanislaw_Lem\" target=\"_blank\">Stanislaw Lem<\/a> died on this date in 2006 (born 1921).<\/p>\n<p>Frye read Lem and alluded to him regularly to illustrate the relationship between science fiction and romance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The twofold focus on reality, inside and outside the mind at once, is particularly important when we are reading what is called fantasy. Stanislaw Lem&#8217;s story of a kingdom created from robots, <em>The Seventh Sally<\/em>, raises questions that have tormented us for centuries, about the relation of God or the gods to man, about the distinction between an organism and a mechanism, about the difference between what is created and what has come into existence by itself. (CW 18, 190)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bhPYyU5OalI From Steven Soderburgh&#8217;s 2002 film adaptation of Solaris. This clip is especially\u00a0beautiful; you&#8217;ll want to see it (although it is not, unfortunately, embedded; click on the image and hit the YouTube link) Stanislaw Lem died on this date in 2006 (born 1921). 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