Alexander Pokrovsky thinks about different things in this book. Funny and not very funny, complex and comical, ugly and delightful, tragic and cruel. About everything that the merciless elements of time offered to him and his generation. A special time that, while we are alive, will never become “past.” One of the main themes of this book is how a person who has sworn to be faithful maintains his oath without losing either himself or the instinct of life in himself.