During the polar night of 1944, in Kirkenes, a small Norwegian town destroyed by Nazi troops, Lieutenant Diakonoff, summarizing his life, wrote in a small notebook his "Kirkenes Ethics". He tried to answer the questions that everyone asks about life, death and consciousness. Later, he became a world-renowned orientalist, one of the best specialists in cuneiform writing.
In 1944, however, no more than today, eternal truths are not open to humans in an explicit way: they are expressed figuratively, through everyday life, through the meaning of a particular destiny.
