Come spring, a separate bookshelf appeared that would keep expanding for the next few years. By Christmas I had amassed a whole stack of books. I spent the entire winter slowly reading it, paragraph by paragraph, with rising amazement. This was the Księga Słów Pańskich (published in English as The Collection of the Words of the Lord), lectures by Jacob Frank (though he preferred the word ‘chats’) edited by Jan Doktór. Years later, in the autumn of 1997, I was in a bookshop somewhere, and I dug out a strange publication consisting of two notebooks, in a large, unwieldy format with a shiny blue cover. HOW COINCIDENCES LEAD TO UNEXPECTED CONSEQUENCES IN THE FORM OF A BOOKįirst there was Nowe Ateny ( New Athens), by Father Benedykt Chmielowski, in a wonderful edition produced by Maria and Jan Lipski, which I read in pieces throughout my childhood and youth.
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