Maria Dorota Pieńkowska: Method

Method

Yes, you can shrug your arms and consider that the pashquil constructed for the usage of a colored magazine for ladies not necessarily curious in beautiful literature does not substance that it would only rise the importance of a text that is not worth our time. That's the first thought a sober reflection comes up for. Isn't that how mass imagination is built and – that's how! – fashion, which is followed by crucial choices? Beata Elżbieta Lechnio, Zbigniew Herbert's niece, is right erstwhile on Facebook, in a post titled "The Posthumous demolition of Zbigniew Herbert's Image" writes: The column of Michał Rusinek, published in the 11th issue of "Your Style", entitled "Splot", is manipulation in the old Ubek style. Referring to the source, it should be noted that this text is simply a kind of literary play, where alternately quoted poet H (read: Jerzy Horodyński) and Herbert, written in full name, merge in the head of a little experienced reader into 1 character, let us note – not very interesting. Most of the recipients of the test referred to here will carry out a contamination, directing their attention to more celebrated Zbigniew Herbert, who will be revealed, as the author of the pashquil will most likely have thought, as a liar, a grifter, an author of volumes that nobody reads... In turn, all casual clever recipient of the column of Mr Rusink will guess what this method is and what benefit the author expects inspired by the large thought of his patroness about the fresh society of Adam. The method of building the dream future is as follows: Facts, like blocks, are utilized for fun, counts any communicative skillfully given to people to believe... The question is unanswered: What is truth? If we agree to specified games, we will take the place of insignificant items, from which skillfully shamans will assemble the planet of nightmare dystopia. There will be no escape from it, due to the fact that the ground built of facts under our feet will be removed irretrievably. Heidegger had already observed: An age that loses ground, bends toward decline. That's why you gotta react! I would like to thank Herbert's niece for her vigilance and appropriate designation of the importance of the case by sending her page on Facebook ( Beata Elżbieta Lechnio).
On the margins of this brief reflection, I can callback words written after Zbigniew Herbert's death by then Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek: "The Prince of Polish Poets [...] stood forever in the national pantheon [...]. We were fortunate to have lived in our time." It's been 27 years. In bookstores we search unsuccessfully for books of the author “Barbarics in the Garden”. No critical editing of the collected works. During the centenary of the birth of Poet, there were no events that would show the countrymen what this author deserved the words of the then Prime Minister of the Polish government. Therefore, let us repeat them with stubbornness before all that is ours is taken from us, and in this place there will be a weave of ridicule, slander and lies.
Maria Dorota Pieńkowska