About the book: year / ...I myself put the noose around his crooked neck. We placed Clem on the edge of a cliff under a tree. We decided that we would push him, and he would hang over the shore and suffocate. But so far we have never had to hang anyone. Our mistake was that we should have pulled the rope between Clem's neck and the branch. But it turned out that she was stretched too thin. And when we pushed him, he didn’t hang so much as fall. And his head came off. So, we dragged Clem’s body into the forest and buried it. But only the body, without the head. He had it round, rolled down and fell into the water…