“The comparison between gold and silver is decided in favor of platinum. But there is too little of it: Shakespeares are rare. Champions in the hundred and ten thousand meters are always different people. You cannot be the strongest and the most graceful at the same time. The giants of the Golden Age built mountains and blazed roads: they created a literary landscape. And the descendants will live in it. Sighs make mother-of-pearl buttons fly off cambric shirts..."