“...Having written the last page, Andrei Platonovich Gorelov pushed aside a stack of paper and stood up from the table. The desk was solid, oak, on carved legs, with drawers. He's about two hundred years old, I guess. This one will last just as long, or even more, even the green cloth has been preserved. At this table, my grandfather-manufacturer once signed bills of sale and his father-linguist worked. Gorelov likes to work at a desk...”