"Haven't you ever noticed, Mr. Glebsky, how much more interesting the
unknown is than the known? The unknown makes us think -- it makes our
blood run a little quicker and gives rise to various delightful trains
of thought. It beckons, it promises. It's like a fire flickering in the
depths of the night. But as soon as the unknown becomes known, it's just
as flat, gray and uninteresting as everything else."
-- Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky.
The Dead Mountaineer's Inn: One More Last Rite for the Detective Genre.
Josh Billings (Translator) (1970, 2015).
Haven't you ever noticed how much more intersting the unknown is than
the known? The unknown makes us think -- it makes our blood run a little
quicker and gives rise to various delightful trains of thought. It
beckons, it promises. It's like a fire flickering in the depths of the
night. But as soon as the unknown becomes known, it's just as flat, gray
and uninteresting as everything else.
-- Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. The Dead Mountaineer's Inn
(One More Last Rite for the Detective Genre) (1970).Translated by
Josh Billings. Melville House (2015). (page 10)
Cold-blooded murder. Crime's tedious confusion.
-- Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. The Dead Mountaineer's Inn
(One More Last Rite for the Detective Genre) (1970).Translated by
Josh Billings. Melville House (2015). (page 94)
...any crime can be explained away perfectly logically if you deploy
enough fantasy and mystification. But reasonable people don't believe in
that kind of logic.
-- Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky. The Dead
Mountaineer's Inn: One More Last Rite for the Detective Genre.
Josh Billings (Translator) (1970, 2015) Chapter 15.