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An author, let’s remind you, is someone who has dominated the keyboard, though he does not necessarily have control over the tongue (his own as well as language in general). An editor in turn is the author’s lord and master. This relationship, although it may seem trivial, is in fact an extraordinary one and worth analysing. Let’s, for example, notice that this relation shows that also the editor does not necessarily have control over the language – the language of the author. And the language in general, but this results from the fact that nobody cannot have a total control over the language even if he clearly wished and wishing this licked freshly laid asphalt.

What I think about poetical events is just what I think. As Ph.D. Kukurowski says: "I earn a shitload of money, with the indication of shit", as a teacher. Here alike. Always more event than poetry. Well, you can always throw a party, but why among poets? What else, among candidates for poets? And candidates for candidates? Among ex-poets, would-be-poets, competitive poets, inspired, invited (me alike), turned out, hermetic, heretical, frail, faraway etc.? Risky dalliance!

This issue resembles a room full of toys. First there is bewilderment. The richness of objects gives pleasure to the eyes, lures into an undiscovered mystery, which hides in each of them. When the first rapture comes to the end, one may recognize what really draws attention. The association with the childlike kingdom of unconcerned joy suggests itself naturally: this year’s third issue of “Czas Kultury” (“The Time of Culture”) (3/2007), in the overwhelming part, is devoted to… exactly, to what? To the childhood, childishness, the child in us, infantility or the time of the childhoodness? There is also an English-language term: cuteness – in an extremely interesting and enlightening sketch of Maja Brzozowska–Bryczewska entitled To co urocze. Notatki o estetyce cuteness. (What is charming. Notes about cuteness aesthetics).