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The knife is the strongest, most everlasting, most brilliant of all human inventions. The knife was the guillotine, the universal method for cutting all ties, the path of paradox also follows the knife's edge – and it's the only path worthy of the fearless mind.

Only the Ancients knew arithmetically incorrect pity: we laugh at it.

I haven't written for several days now. I don't remember how many; all the days have blurred into one. All of them are the same colour – yellow: like hot, arid sand, not even the shred of a shadow, nor drop of water, endlessly trudging over the yellow sand.

A button snapped on her collar – her chest – lower. The glassy silk rustled over her shoulders, her knees – onto the floor. I heard – and this is even more vivid than seeing – how one foot stepped out, then the other... out of the blue-grey pile of silk…

But still, he, O and I – we are a triangle – even if it’s not equilateral, it’s still a triangle. We are, to put it in the terms of our ancestors (perhaps you, my planetary readers, will understand this language better), we are a family. And it’s so nice to rest sometimes, even for a little while, to shut oneself off in a simple, sturdy triangle, shutting out everything that…

I was suddenly overtaken by the beauty of this grand mechanical ballet glittering in the weightless, pale blue sunlight.

I am merely copying down the announcement that appeared in today’s One State Gazette word for word:

In 120 days, construction of the INTEGRAL will be complete. The glorious, historic hour when the first-ever INTEGRAL will blast off into outer space is nigh.