Jack London (born Jack London; born John Griffith Chaney)

1. A good name is better than an expensive suit, and the day of death is the day of birth. 2. It is better to go to a house of mourning for the dead than to go to a house of feasting; for such is the end of every man, and the living shall add it to his heart. 3. Complaining is better than laughter; because the sadness of the face makes the heart better. four.

  The escape
"Better to be a dead lion than a live dog"
Written before his death by a deserter
On February 8, junior sergeant Alexander Pukhov, armed with a machine gun, escaped from military unit #2133 of the North-Western Border District. Having shot the driver of the Khleb van along the way, he set off towards the border with Estonia. The policemen managed to block the deserter. In the battle with them, the sergeant shot himself in the head with a machine gun.

The border part #2133 is located near the village of Lebyazhye, on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. Its main task is to protect the state border from the sea.
On Sunday morning, junior sergeant Alexander Pukhov, who was on duty at the outpost, opened armory, stole an AKS-74 assault rifle from it, 8 magazines (25 rounds in each), 2 bayonet-knives and binoculars, after which he fled. His disappearance was discovered after one and a half to two hours. The officers of the frontier post immediately informed the officers on duty in the North-Western border district, the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region and FSB. Plan "Ring" was put into action. Special forces, border guards and employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs took part in the operation to search for and capture an armed deserter.
At about 18.30, the search group discovered Pukhov near the village Pinery. Seeing the policemen, the deserter shouted: "I am a violator state border!" and opened fire with a machine gun.
On the offer to surrender, Pukhov refused and continued to shoot. Luckily the bullets didn't hit anyone. The deserter was also fired back. From time to time the shooting died down and the capture team tried to convince the deserter to lay down their arms.
But he wasn't about to give up. To the parliamentarians who went to the forest where the sergeant was hiding, he handed over a note addressed to his parents. "I had to do it, although I lost," it said. "Better to be a dead lion than a live dog."
During the shootout, Pukhov was wounded in the leg, after which he, probably not finding a better way out, decided to shoot himself. At about 12 o'clock at night, he shot himself in the head with a machine gun. When the police found Pukhov, he was still alive. Next to him lay a machine gun, two empty magazines and a scattering of spent cartridges.
On the morning of February 9, doctors operated on the sergeant in the Sosnovy Bor hospital. According to them, now Pukhov is in a critical condition.
In all likelihood, it was Pukhov who shot the driver of the Khleb van. His corpse with a gunshot wound to the heart was found on February 8 on the shores of the Gulf of Finland. In any case, the series of shell casings left at the crime scene matches the series of cartridges that the sergeant stole from the outpost.
According to the press service of the North-Western Border Circle, Pukhov, drafted into the army in the fall of 1996, "had a psychological breakdown, expressed in a manic manifestation of aggressiveness." So far, nothing is known about whether Pukhov was drugged or drugged at the time of his escape. drunkenness. Although the border guards themselves do not exclude this, as well as the fact that Pukhov fled because of hazing.
According to the prosecutor's office of the North-Western border district, investigating the incident, in the coming days, investigators will conduct a comprehensive check of the outpost, from which the sergeant escaped.

CRIME DEPARTMENT

Wise Thoughts

(January 12, 1876, San Francisco, California, USA - November 22, 1916, Glen Ellen, California, USA)

American writer, socialist, public figure, best known as the author of adventure stories and novels.

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A dead lion is better than a live dog.
(*Hearts of three*)

The metaphysician in his reasoning uses the deductive method, he proceeds from false premises. The scientist uses the inductive method, he proceeds from the data of experience. The metaphysician goes from theory to facts, the scientist from facts to theory. The metaphysician, starting from himself, wants to explain the whole world. The scientist, knowing the world, knows himself. (Ernest Everhard)
("Iron Heel, 1908")

The world will always remain a mystery! For me, human conscience is no more a mystery than chemical reaction, due to which ordinary water arises. Agree that this is a mystery, and then more and more complex natural phenomena will lose their mystery. This simple chemical reaction is like those basic axioms on which the entire edifice of geometry is built. Matter and force are the eternal mysteries of the universe, and they manifest themselves in the mystery of space and time. Manifestations are not a mystery; only their foundations are mysterious - matter and force, and even the arena of these manifestations - space and time.

The world belongs to the strong, the strong, who, at the same time, is noble and does not wallow in the swine trough of haggling and speculation. The world belongs to people of true nobility, magnificent blond beasts who know how to assert themselves and their will.
("Martin Eden", 1909)

I wanted all this, and now I want it. I would like to breathe such air as you have in your house, so that there are books, pictures and all kinds of beautiful things around, and so that people speak calmly and quietly and are cleanly dressed, and so that their thoughts are pure.
(*Martin Eden*)

Power and authority had their usual effect on him /... / This led to an exorbitant, unnatural admiration for his “I”: those around him did not evoke any warm feelings in him, moreover, he did not consider them to be people; there was only one thing left for him - to erect an altar of his personality and offer prayers to it.
(*Time-does-not-wait*)

my arms wrap around you before I even realize it
(*Little mistress of a big house*)

Youth is Retribution! She destroys old people, not thinking about the fact that in doing so, she will destroy herself.

Moscow is not ordinary Big city, what a thousand; Moscow is not a silent mass of cold stones arranged in a symmetrical order... no! She has her own soul, her own life...

A man's honor is far from always able to delight a woman.
(*Hearts of three*)

The man is a lazy and rude savage. He doesn't like to be bothered. He loves peace and relaxation. And ever since the human race has existed, it sees itself connected with a restless, nervous, irritable and hysterical companion; the name of this companion is a woman. She has all sorts of moods, tears, resentment, conceited desires and complete moral irresponsibility. But he could not destroy it, he needed it, although it poisoned his life. What was left for him?
(*Little mistress of a big house*)

A man rarely understands how much a close woman means to him - in any case, he does not truly appreciate her until he loses his family. He does not notice the subtlest, elusive warmth created by the presence of a woman in the house; but as soon as it disappears, a void forms in his life, and he vaguely longs for something, not knowing himself what he lacks. If his comrades are no more experienced than he is, they will shake their heads doubtfully and start drugging him with powerful drugs. But hunger does not let go - on the contrary, it torments you more and more; a person loses his taste for ordinary, everyday existence, becomes gloomy and gloomy; and then one fine day, when the sucking emptiness inside becomes unbearable, it finally dawns on him.
("Son of the Wolf")

A man who is not hurt by the love of a woman is only half a man. ("The Blind Robber")
("Hearts of Three" (Hearts of Three), 1916)

Men - each individually and all together are arranged in such a way that they often reach the grave, remaining in blissful ignorance of the whole depth of deceit inherent in the other half of the human race.
("Daughter of the Northern Lights" from the collection of short stories "The God of His Fathers", 1901)

We never win. Sometimes it seems to us, but such is the small courtesy that the gods honor us with.
("When the Gods Laugh")

Matt looked at his master, shaking his head disapprovingly.
- You'll excuse me, Mr. Scott, but, by God, you have at least seventeen fools in you, and everyone is operating in his own way.
(*White Fang*)

(11): And I turned, and I saw under the sun that it is not for the agile that a successful run, not for the brave victory, not for the wise bread, and not for the prudent wealth, and not for the skillful, favor, but time and chance for all of them.

1. "A living dog is better than a dead lion" (1-10)

The words "under the sun" are repeated frequently in this book. They mean that the author views the world from a human point of view. If we consider death as the end of everything, then this is the fate of everything and everyone. In this case, life "under the sun" is meaningless. However, the author found three truths about life under the sun: 1) it is better to be alive than dead - a live dog is better than a dead lion; 2) what you do, do it with joy; 3) What you do, do it with all your might.

2. "Not agile gets a successful run" (11-18)

One more thing. Success and happiness do not necessarily come from the able. God controls the life of every person, as well as this world. His wisdom is better than strength, even if this wisdom is not recognized by others. God gives His wisdom to those who fear Him and see the world from His point of view.

Prayer: Lord, grant me wisdom; help me to work hard.

One word: Success does not come to the agile

A live dog is better than a dead lion.
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