Sunday, May 15, 2016

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's "Preface" from GULAG ARCHIEPELAGO

Preface


In 1949, some friends and I came upon a noteworthy news 
item in Nature

a magazine of the Academy of Science.
It reported in tiny type
that in the course of excavations on the Kolyma River
a subterranean ice lens had been discovered
which was actually a frozen stream

and in it were found frozen specimens of prehistoric 
fauna some tens of thousands of years old. Whether 
fish or salamander, these were preserved in so 
fresh a state

The scientific correspondent reported they devoured 
them with relish on the spot.

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