Book: The last day was sentenced to death

They teach me to speak in thieves ' slang, "Bang the mallet", in their expression. This is a real language that accrued in the national language, disgusting or herpes or wart. Sometimes he reaches a kind of expressiveness, the picturesqueness, which takes the horror: "On the tray spilled juice" (blood on the road), "marry the widow" (to be hanged), as if the rope on the gallows - widow all hanged. Head thief has two names: "the Sorbonne" when she's up to, considers and tells a crime, and "chock" when the executioner chops off her; sometimes the language reveals a playful manner: "willow shawl" - a basket of junk. "liar" is the language; but most of all, at every step, across the incomprehensible, mysterious, ugly, disgusting words, who took from nowhere: "kat" - the executioner, "lusca" - death. Every word looks like a spider or a toad. When you listen to how it's spoken, it looks like before you shake out the dirty and dusty rags.

How awful it is when the only creature on earth that love wholeheartedly, love all the power of his love, looks at you, talks to you, meets you and gets to know you!

Strange fantasy to find primary sources in the middle of nowhere and prove that a stream flowing along your street, fed by the waters of the Nile.

Those who are truly strong and truly great, they should always take care of the weak and small.

If you don't trust the strength of gratings, as you venture to have menageries?

Let around me all the monotonous and gray, but within me a raging storm, full fight, played out a tragedy.

The evil that was fought with anger, begin to treat with mercy. It will be simple and dignified. Instead of the gallows - cross. That's all.

Public building of the past rested on three pillars: the priest, the king, the executioner. Long ago the voice said, "the Gods are out." Recently another voice declared: "Kings are out." It is time that the third voice said: "the Executioner out!".

Sometimes could not help thinking that the defenders of the death penalty is not aware of clear of what it is. Yes, compare you ever commit any crime so outrageous right that society arbitrarily appropriated, with the right to take away what it did not give, this punishment, which in itself is the most irreparable of all evils is irreparable!

First of all, we reject the idea of the example. We deny that the spectacle of execution is having the effect of, what is expected of him. It plays a by no means edifying, and the corrupting role, it kills more people pity, and, consequently, all the good feelings.

We argue that society must retaliate, must punish. In any case. Revenge can an individual be punished, maybe God. The society occupies an intermediate stage. Kara mentioned it, revenge below. Neither is the sublime, no such vile thing he ought not; his duty is not "to punish, to avenge", but to educate, to correct.

The rope on the gallows - widow all hanged.

What death does to our soul? What nature gives her? That takes it or gives it? What to do with it? Does she at least occasionally bodily eyes to look at the ground and cry?

All people sentenced to death, suspended for indefinite time.