Quotation

“A fisherman is on a frozen lake. He moves around, listening all the time for the ice cracking beneath his feet, ready to jump back to thicker ice if necessary, but sometimes he’s not quick enough. The ice breaks. He falls in.” “So, what’s the dilemma?” “I heard it from my wife, Irina. If he pulls himself out of the water onto the ice, he’ll freeze to death in seconds, a minute at most. If he stays in the water, he’ll die of hypothermia in five,“ … === Bolot was insistent that they cook the bear meat for several hours, way longer than Arkady and Tatiana thought necessary, “Bears often carry parasites,” Bolot explained, “You don’t want to catch trichinosis, trust me. Happened to two friends of mine. One of them got severely ill, the other, severely dead,“…