At first, Jakub laughed. "Rubber? What is there to say? It stretches, it snaps, it erases mistakes."
"You see, Jakub?" the editor said, snapping a rubber band against a stack of papers. "Everything in this life needs a little bit of give. If you're too rigid, you break. If you're like guma , you endure."
He titled the collection: The Elastic Soul of the World . When he submitted it, his editor looked at the range of topics—from industrial tires to tiny erasers—and nodded.
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