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He was right: the most heroic act of humanity - is the fact that it has survived and intends to survive.

"You ask me what makes man great? - he quoted. - That created a second nature? That set in motion forces that almost space? That in a brief time he conquered the planet and opened a window to the Universe? No! The fact that, despite all this, he has survived and intends to survive and beyond."

Give man an extremely simplified system of the world and explain every phenomenon away on the basis of this simplified model. This approach does not require any knowledge. A few memorized formulas pins so-called intuition, the so-called practical minds and so-called common sense.

Usually a trivial definition is used: reason is that part of man which distinguishes its activity from animal activity. Sort of, you know, an attempt to distinguish the owner from the dog who understands everything, just can't speak. However, this flat definition suggests a more witty. Based on bitter observation of the above-mentioned human activities. For example: reason is the ability of a living creature to perform unreasonable or unnatural acts.

Humanity as a whole is too fixed a system, there's no changing it.

The trouble is that we don't notice as the years pass, he thought. To hell with the years, we don't notice everything changing. We know that everything changes, we are taught from childhood that everything changes, we have seen many times with my own eyes how things are changing, and at the same time, we are not able to notice the moment when there is a change, or looking for a change, not where he should be.

And now no one knows what it's like ulcer whether, the Treasury, the hellish temptation, Pandora's box, the devil, the devil... Enjoy gradually. Twenty years of puffing, billions spent, but organized robbery to establish and could not. Everyone makes their own small business, and the academic heads solemnly broadcast: on the one hand it must be admitted, and on the other hand we can not agree, because the object is so-and-so, being irradiated with x-rays at an angle of eighteen degrees, quatitative emits electrons at an angle of twenty two degrees...

The strange thing is, why do we like it when people praise us? The money from this increase. Fame? What we can have glory? "He's famous: now three people know about him". Well, let's say four, counting Bayliss. Funny creature man is!... It seems we enjoy praise just for itself. As the kids ice cream. And very stupid. How can I rise in my own eyes? What I didn't know myself? Old fat Richard H. Noonan? And by the way, what is "G"? Here you and! And no one to ask... Not Mr. same Lemchen to ask... Oh, wait! Herbert. Richard Herbert Noonan. Well, it's pouring.

That's right: the money a person needs to never stop thinking about it...

Throughout the city there are only two people - red and me! All the rest are pigs, children of Satan. Red! You also serve the devil, but you're still a man...

- ...And to myself I say: what do you have in Europe, not seen? The boredom of your not seen? Day; evening TV watching, the night came to a hateful woman under a blanket, bastards to produce. Your strikes, demonstrations, policy is broken down... In a coffin, I your Europe have seen - say - scuzzy.
- Well, why shouldn't Europe?...
- And - say - it's the same everywhere, but in Antarctica, even in addition cold.

Our little town is a hole. It always has been and still is. Only now, from this hole in the future. Through this hole we this into your lousy world we fill that everything will change. Life will be different, correct, each will have all that is necessary. Here is the hole. Through this hole of knowledge goes. And when we have the knowledge, we'll make everyone rich, and'll fly to the stars, and where you want to get. Here's a hole we have here...

After only one left - a girl by the arm to hold.

I locked myself in a stall, got my flask, unscrewed the cap, and attached myself to it like a bug. Sit on the bench, my knees empty, my head empty, empty soul, know yourself swallow strong as water. Alive. Released Area. Released a grebe. Despicable. Alive. The damn, treacherous bitch. Anyone other than a Stalker, do not understand.