“In February 2001, there was an unprecedented event a time earthquake tells us one of the favorite characters of the author Kilgore Trout .. The universe has experienced an acute bout of self-doubt. Should it expand indefinitely? For what devil? Is it possible to return for a couple of minutes to the beginning, and then again arrange the Big Bang? However, this action required too much courage, and the Universe returned only ten years ago. And people received a gift of ten years of life and a chance to rewrite it in white - after all, all the moves are known in advance! It could be the ideal, the best ten years of life, but day after day, week after week, people stubbornly stepped on the old rake, exactly repeating the pattern of fate … A story of a life in which all significant events happened unexpectedly, beyond all logic and common sense. First, he unexpectedly graduated from a military academy, then fought in Vietnam - and how he fought! Then he worked as a teacher in a college where children from wealthy families studied, then … What has not happened to him?[edit] And how did he survive? And how did he not survive out of his mind? And this, perhaps, is the most interesting . The book contains foul language.