About the book: 1900 / From the translator Paraphrasing Fripp from 1981 (and contradicting him), we can safely say that we are already We have entered an era when small personal freedoms have reached imaginable limits, and even superstars, Jews, blacks and homosexuals cannot reliably protect their copyright. Moreover, I won’t be able to do this either. And since, firstly, the author of this book himself did not hesitate to post it on his website, and secondly, a certain part of me born in the USSR always vaguely sensed some kind of redneckness in copyright law, I do not at all object to any broad non-commercial distribution of my work, but I strongly object to its publication in whole or in part in any commercially distributed publication. The more successful the first is, the less likely the second will become. Well, and of course, I object no less strongly to any cuts or inserts. All rights un- (or never have been) reserved. P.K. Text © 1990 Eric Alexander Tamm Translation © 2006 Pavel Kachanov [email protected]