a point on the wall was discovered by me at two o’clock in the morning, I got up to take a closer look and saw an old man in the pouring rain, having moved through the space of a hundred years old, to rest near the fountain of abandoned dreams, I noticed that his legs were in small things above the knee, he probably brought with him grains of lost people as a memory of their existence

talkative people are indiscriminate; maybe simply because they don’t want to be heard? maybe even yourself? stumbling over words, distilling thoughts, developing language in the evening hours they sit at the table and it’s scary! scary! tilting his head to look at a blank sheet of paper, where instead of letters and all sorts of words drops beating loudly on dry hands

Empathy is a fairly new word. Despite its ancient Greek roots, it first appeared in English (from where it was later translated into Russian) in 1909, in Edward Titchener's Lectures on Experimental Psychology.

Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates once asked a rhetorical question: Are we organized enough if the cave dwellers have surpassed us in the information space? (Original: out-communicated). Perhaps the point here is not in the organization of the operational front, but in the most strategic one. Western civilization, which is at war with religious fanatics and terrorists, has not abandoned metaphysics at all.