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| | FireBlade Book Review: The Star Diaries |
 | | That device consists of a system of cranks, pulleys and levers situated in various places about the dwelling and which the children push, pull and move in the course of their play, unaware that they are thereby pumping water, washing clothes, peeling potatoes, generating electricity, etc. |
 | | Ijon Tichy disguises himself as a robot and goes to investigate. |
 | | From the inability of Ijon Tichy to work together with others exactly like him, to the planet of the fearful robots, and the planet of the out-of-countrol bureau of irrigation, his visions of human madness are both funny and instructive. |
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