Content1 1. The i of Mircea Cărtărescu 2. Meantime – for 80 years old László Bertók, Poem by Balázs Lázár ________________________________  ÉS is the abbreviation of “Élet és Irodalom”, which is a literary and political weekly.  

Many people regard the text in the title as a rhetorical question, because this dilemma cannot be answered with our current level of knowledge. This topic is closely related to our ideas about the meaning of life. It would be good to know; whether humankind appeared as a curio in the altering but inanimate material world, or the humanity was the consequence of the inevitable series of the reasons, or mankind was the result of a targeted program.1 _______________________________ 1 This writing was inspired by the book The Human Adventure by Elemér Hankiss

Instead of an obituary In difficult times of my life some of my friends advised me to perceive my hardship as an adventure. Elemér Hankiss also regarded his hardship as adventure in his scientific and public life. In his book titled “The Human Adventure” Elemér Hankiss shared his thoughts with us on the odyssey of mankind; on the adventurous change of the human culture and on the everlasting culture in the changes.

More and more often I am reminded of an old school experience. In elementary school I was the sixth or seventh grade, when a primary school schoolmistress on an arithmetic clock substituted, and in the course of one of the tasks 0.6 divided by 0.2 was equal to 0.3. I was surprised, and I started feeling uncomfortably. In the end I raised my hand, and I corrected that 0.6 divided by 0.2 is equal to 3. By this hell broke loose.