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On the twenty-first of June 1954, Viktor Stepanovich Skadovsky left his apartment shortly before midnight in order to keep an appointment.
His wife had urged him not to go. What good could come from an appointment at this hour, she wanted to know. Did he think the police didn't walk the streets at midnight? The police made a point of walking the streets at midnight. Because since the beginning of time, that's when fools have kept their appointments!