Chapter 1 How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago? Hour by hour planes fly there, ships steer their course there, and trains thunder off to it - but all with nary a mark on them to tell of their destination. And at ticket windows or at travel bureaus for Soviet or foreign tourists the employees would be astounded if you were to ask for a ticket to go there. They know nothing and they've never heard of the Archipelago as a whole or of any one of its innumerable islands.
Those who go to the Archipelago to administer it get there via training schools of the Ministry of Internal affairs.
Those who get there to be guards are conscripted via the military conscription centers.
And those who, like you and me, dear reader, go there to die, must go there solely and compulsorily via arrest.
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Começa assim o célebre livro de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Os autores russos têm um condão especial para o começo dos livros...
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