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The stories and novellas that make up Ivan Korsak's book On the Verge, written in different years and about different times, are somewhat reminiscent of a soil profile, a vertical section of the soil. An attentive connoisseur will be able to read about good and bad summers, floods and earthquakes, and much more the earth can tell.

A similarly, a time section of human souls can evoke a series of thoughts - why some were corroded by rust, while others were protected, why the mules of life squealed at some, while others could never join them, why fate raised some to the heights of spirit, while others were judged by lowliness...