... existence which the two protagonists Prince Trefaldi and Travaillac are left to try out. Speed and experience are the only categories that could lead a person to the dimensions of the limitlessness and the absolute. Technology as the ultimate opportunity to quest the thirst for truth in human beings, the progress and the still unseen consequences it will bring the people and the world in general. Prince Trefaldi who is an engineer begins the journey of accelerating speed and madness and Travaillac as his locomotive fireman follows his orders, though the tempo will obviously cause their destruction as well as of the machinery. The trip is towards the infinity of existence filled with Angst, despair and the compelling time-condensed need for knowledge of the truth about oneself. Witkiewicz not only scandalizes his contemporaries with a drama that is full of philosophic rhetoric which develops its arguments in permanent inconsistency, but ...

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