Boris Strugatsky. Search designation, or Twenty seventh theorem of ethics (№ 276400)

Are you still THERE, my Stack. You still live "in the country, which is not zagranicy in a dream". This country is not, and never was. "But always, in joy and in sorrow, just quietly close your eyes: in a troubled, distant, blue sea the Brigantine raises the sails..." Filibusters were ordinary criminals, my Stack, sea punks, bloody and vile. But the author of these lines died the most ordinary horrible death - he was killed in the war... You are imagining that there is somewhere in Heaven, my Stack, and where the - Hell. They are not, they are here, around us, and they always coexist: the torturers live in Paradise, and the martyrs in Hell, and judgment had long been held, but we have not noticed the trouble about the Future......