"Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky. The Time Wanderers (англ.)" - читать интересную книгу автора

knows, "always had a few words to spare," no matter the topic.

Anyway, Dr. L Bromberg sent me his reply, which is now known as the
Bromberg Memorandum.

It all began with it.

I'll begin with it, too.

DOCUMENT 1: The Bromberg Memorandum

To COMCON-2
Sector Ural-North
To Maxim Kammerer
Personal and Official

Date: 3 June 94

FROM: I. Bromberg, senior consultant COMCON-1, doctor of historical
sciences, laureate of the Herodotus Prize (63, 69, and 72 ), professor,
laureate of the Small Prize -- Jan Amos Kamensky Prize( 57),doctor of
xenopsychology, doctor of sociotopology, acting member of the Academy of
Sociology (Europe), corresponding member of the Laboratorium (Academy of
Sciences) of Great Tagro, master of the realization of Parsival's
abstractions.
THEME: "A Visit from an Old Lady."
CONTENTS: working model of the Progressorist activity of the Wanderers
in the system of humanity on earth.

Dear Kammerer!

Please do not take the heading with which I capped this missive as an
old man's mockery. l merely wanted to stress that my missive, while
completely personal, is at the same time official. I've remembered the cap
of your reports from the days when they were tossed on my desk as an
argument (rather feeble) by your pathetic Sikorski.

My attitude toward your organization has not changed in the least. I
never hid it, and it is certainly well known to you. Nevertheless, I studied
with great interest the materials you were kind enough to send me. Thank
you. I want to assure you that in this direction of your work (but not only
in this direction!) you will find me your most ardent ally and collaborator.

I do not know whether this Is a coincidence, but I received your
Compendium of Models just at the moment when I was about to embark on
summing up my many years of thinking about the nature of the Wanderers and
the inevitability of their collision with the civilization of Earth. Of
course, it is my profound belief that there are no coincidences. Apparently,
the time for this question is ripe.