![]() ![]() If nothing bothers you and your pain isn’t greatĭon’t be resentful of the grimmest fate), The nincompoop was totally blind to the fact that he was situated at the center of that “golden” kernel of happiness (golden in the sense of an autumnal sky at dawn, an aspen leaf turned yellow by the sun, the luster of a perfectly formed beetle) (for as Marquis di Scampi used to croon while bathing: ![]() This was indeed so, although some individuals still managed to profit from the refuse of a moribund life in Zipcio’s case, however, everything seemed bent upon his destruction, externally as well as internally. His sole consolation derived from the fact that horrible times had befallen nearly everyone else as well. (Conceived by Witkiewicz, the photograph was taken by Józef Głogowski.)įrom the beginning of the second part of Witkacy’s novel, Insatiability: Self-portrait, Zakopane (1931) by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (born 24 February, 1885 died 18 September, 1939), aka Witkacy. ![]()
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