Cockroaches: A Comedy in One Act
(1893)

Witkacy wrote this play at the age of eight.

 

Peter: Here you are talking and the gray thing is coming closer. It's a cloud of cockroaches!
Priest: How do you know?
Peter: I looked through my telescope.

 

extract, tr. Daniel Gerould, from The Witkiezicz Reader (Northwestern University Press, 1992)

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