Meanwhile a Lieutenant Sinyukhaev, who was years ago wrongly recorded as dead, struggles fruitlessly to assert that, contrary to received opinion, he is very much alive, and ends up a vagabond on the highways of Russia, relying on the charity of strangers. In the contemporary world, where I fear we are currently in thrall to the left hemisphere's way of thinking, this problem, that the piece of paper has become more important than the reality that it refers to, is endemic.
The authority we give to the left in our current culture is greater than the authority we give to the right
