angry, irritated; it started to bite me, and was running away. The next day,
a tiger killed him. The dog was angry, irritated, and scared because the
tiger influenced his mind: the dog didn’t see the tiger, but the tiger
attracted him from a distance—like a magnet. It’s like hypnosis: putting
thoughts in somebody’s head. The person, or the dog—they don’t
understand what is happening or what they are doing. They are going
somewhere without thinking clearly.”
There are other explanations, but none more satisfactory for why
Markov behaved as he did: why he struck everyone who saw him as “not
himself,” why he refused their food and shelter, why he walked alone, in
darkness, back to a place the tiger knew well. But it is the tracks that are
most unsettling: the way they lead, mile after mile, down the Amba and
through the taiga, directly into the path of the tiger. This, and the way the
tiger did not hunt him, but waited patiently outside his door, as if he was
expecting him, like a dog—or a hit man. A human being could not have
engineered a more bitter revenge scenario.
- It was closed in 1960. In 2004, an archive of the institute’s holdings
was established at the university. - In remote areas like the Bikin, antifreeze is hard to come by, so at night
the radiators in heavy machinery will simply be drained into a bucket.
The following morning, before dawn, a worker will build a fire, thaw the
water out, and refill the radiators for the workday. - Slang term for strong, loose tobacco.
- In September 1942, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn were forced to
return to civilization when Korn became seriously ill with beri-beri
(caused by a deficiency of vitamin B). Although they faced multiple
charges, the presiding judge was impressed by their story and they were
not interned. Instead, the authorities put them back to work, using their
intimate knowledge of the land to locate water sources for farmers. Korn
died in a car accident in 1946, but Martin lived until 1998, during which
time he did pioneering work in geology, including plate tectonics, taught
as a university professor, published several more books and monographs,