Bapašaba

Literary style: a non-everyday story book spellbound in “the book of daily emails”. These emails always playfully reflect the state of mind in a given space-time continuum.

Written by: Dipl.-Ing. Jaroslav Bednarik, Dipl.-Ing. Rastislav Dobos, Dipl.-Ing. Peter Gaspar, Dipl.-Ing. Jan Petrek.

Illustrated by: Dipl.-Ing. Valer Fabcin.

Designed by: Dipl.-Ing. Rastislav Dobos.

Color arrangement of illustrations for internet by: Dipl.-Ing. Rastislav Dobos.
All rights reserved © 2002.

The authors reserve all rights. Any unauthorized use of the published text and illustrations or parts thereof are forbidden.

(Authors´ contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Number of pages: 194 (if there is something really good, then it is good to have more of it).

ISBN: 80-89037-05-4

The conviction of the authors that these stories are wonderful is also supported by the fact that the book has been baptized by Juraj Jakubisko, a famous Slovak film director, who likes the book very much.

Many thanks to Juraj Jakubisko.

Availability: The book was probably sold out long time ago, but for sure people have not succeeded to steal it from all libraries, but you still have a chance to get one here. The authors still have a few books left, but after having learnt from life experiences they will not let them out of their hands.

The book contains the following stories:

ASTAPOFF´S DOG (Peter Gaspar)

A MAGNI-FRUITED VERIPEDE (Rastislav Dobos)

MAP-GUIDED RUN (Jan Petrek)

A LONELY MAN (Jan Petrek)

ISAAC? (Peter Gaspar)

THE HEREAFTER (Jan Petrek)

THE FINAL CONTACT (Jan Petrek)

THE ACTION (Peter Gaspar)

BRAVE RABBIT IN THE U.S. (Jaroslav Bednarik)

THE DEMON´S WORLD (Jan Petrek)

CAMIL´S SHORT POEMS (Rastislav Dobos)

A FEW DAYS ON THE DESERT´S EDGE (Peter Gaspar)

THE PUPPET SHOW (Jan Petrek)

INVITATION INTO DARKNESS (Jaroslav Bednarik)

THE DELETION (Jan Petrek)

AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Peter Gaspar)

FILM ART (Rastislav Dobos)

LIFE EXPERT (Jan Petrek)

DEATH AND GOATS (Jaroslav Bednarik)

THE YLIMAF FAMILY (Rastislav Dobos)

NEWS OF HORROR (Jaroslav Bednarik)

THE END OF GENERAL W. K.? (Peter Gaspar)

THE RAVEN (Jan Petrek)

THE ESSENCE (Jan Petrek)

HOW MANY DETAILS PUSH YOU TO LIVE (Rastislav Dobos)

RETURN OF THE ARBITRATOR (Jan Petrek)

THE CABLEWAY (Jan Petrek)

WHEN THE WINTER WEIGHS (Jaroslav Bednarik)

I HAVEN’T BEEN HERE YET (Peter Gaspar)

THE CONVERSATION (Peter Gaspar)

MESSAGE FROM GODS (Jan Petrek)

SHAVING OF THE EYE (Rastislav Dobos)

JEWISH WINE (Jaroslav Bednarik)

A YOUNG LADY (Peter Gaspar)

THE VERDICT (Jan Petrek)

DEATH OF THE GOAT (Rastislav Dobos)

ALBUM OF AUTHORS (exclusively for female reader fans):

Normally you find out how amazing certain books are from their covers. Since we had no doubts about this, we have rather filled in this place of readers’ attention with an excerpt from a several month-long fight about the book´s title. No matter what, it is not a trifle when 4 + 1 authors are writing the same book. It is an ongoing war.

From: Johnny < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

To: editor < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Subject: The last appeal

Date: 2 August, 2002 06:55:46 AM

Hello Rasto:

According to simultaneous emails resent to me by Jerry, it seems to me that the title Death of the Goat has an exceptionally great longevity supported by opinions of people in your proximity and who undoubtedly are excellent literary experts. We can have professional literary attributes but more importantly, although it may be diametrically opposed, we have a common reader, who simply wishes for a good book, walks around in a book store and casually picks out books from overfilled shelves dominated by all sorts of American junk with very similar titles, in other words the ones where every second word is “death“.

The second aspect of my ill feeling comes from this very word. The word “death“ actually has a particularly dangerous meaning that arouses negative feelings. Moreover, the title Death of the Goat yields absolutely no clear meaning, whether it is a matter of an event, meaning the death of the goat, or whether it is a matter of a tangible attribute, meaning a quantum space-time fluctuation. In the latter case, however, this would not be true because animals do not have this convenience as humans where each person has his/her own death. In other words, you can see your own death, or quantum space-time fluctuation, for a moment when you open your eyes wide without focusing on anything in particular, just staring absentmindedly, and always look through the corner of your left eye only. If you see a fleeting shadow, spots, flash or some other disruption or irregularity in your field of vision, then it is your own Death that confirms the integrity of consciousness all your life.

Our knowledge about death ends at this point though. Opinions about a deeper meaning of this phenomenon lie merely in hypotheses and speculations. That is why I think that arbitrarily, without being supported by scientific experiments, it is not appropriate for us to needlessly materialize this phenomenon in our literary work, which will by itself have a powerful effect on our readers in the spiritual sphere.

Thus only the first assumption remains, which indicates that the title “Death of the Goat“ represents a departure of an animal, the goat. In that case I recommend the following. In order to avoid the above mentioned risk, we should modify the title to reflect an event, in other words we should use phrases such as: “Demise of the Goat, Last Breath of the Goat, The Goat Kicking the Bucket, Goat’s Departure from This World, Expiration of the Goat, Passing Away of the Goat, Eradication of the Goat, Fading Away of the Goat” or similar titles that will avoid the dangerous word – death. Rasto, please take it as my last desperate appeal before something happens which we could regret later very, very much. Let us not play around with something we do not understand. Why take any unnecessary risk? Damn it, we are still young and the whole life is still in front of us. So why should we inspire that which is always on our left side?

Incidentally, why did you stay away from using Jerry´s wonderful title “The Nail of Butter” that you liked very much?

Take care, Johnny.

PS: In conclusion, if you decide to stick to your own after all, then heck with it and put death in there. I will accept it. At least I will have peace of mind knowing that I have done everything possible to convince you.

An unselfish help in writing, production and promotion of the book has been provided by:

Ivan Rosa, Ivan Slavik, Gozoo, Ivanka Benkova, Palo Macko, Romulus Pesko, Michal Nalevanko, Ivan Hudec, Boba Laucka, Olga Kmetova Stajkova, Pata, the Holiks, Vlado Cerven, Peter Suzko, Robert Beno, Ivan Ceredejev, Ander Sondej, Tomas Tuleja, Marian Zima, Peter Visvader, Attila Darazs, Feri Martancik, Kamil Zbruz, the Bistaks, the Smidts, the Burajs, Janka Dlhopolcova, Janka Satranska, Sweetie, Evka Stahlova, Viera Uzakova, Bozena Rolkova, Gabriela Mendanova, Ludmila Bencatova, Eva Breznenova, Erika Cermakova, Martinka Zelinkova, Janka Chorvatovicova, Peter Holka, dearest Silvia, Agata Fabcinova, Evicka Petrekova, Jozef Bukovcak, Jan Stofanik, Peter Dunajovec, Silvia Chupekova, Jan Krajci, Valer Fabcin, Juraj Gjabel, Jarko Bednarik, Rasto Dobos, Janko Petrek, Peter Gaspar, OUR MOTHERS AND FATHERS, and other good people and friends.

Thanks to them we published the book in 2003 Anno Domini – the year of the GOAT