<正>All of us have read thrilling stories in which the herohad only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year;sometimes as short as twenty-four hours, but always we were interested in discovering justhow the doomed man chose to spend his last days or his lasthours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, notcondemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictlydelimited.