Prologue: the strategy of truth. First act: Exposition. Problems of intellectuals, Winter, 1968. -- "Wherefrom, with whom, and whither?" -- Ten commandments for a young Czechoslovak intellectual -- Masaryk's death -- Heads against the wall -- The rules of the game. -- Second act: Collision. Problems of workers, Spring 1968. -- Open letter to the workers -- Your present crisis -- The meaning of our generation movement -- Forbidden horizons -- What next? -- It is not we who are afraid -- The genius and the apparatus. -- Third act: Crisis. Problems of power elites, Summer, 1968. -- Ten commandments for an adult intellectual -- Truth as a provocation to power -- The consequences of words -- The seasons, 1968 -- Prologue to intervention -- Appeal to the people -- Manifesto against aggression. -- Fourth act: Peripeteia. Problems of nations, Fall, 1968. -- The end of the game -- Ten commandments for an occupied intellectual -- Nation and history -- The Gordian knot -- Heads against tanks. -- Fifth act: Catastrophe. Problems of men, Winter, 1969. -- Goliath's arms -- The policy of truth -- The truth about the occupation -- The trip to the Moon -- Ten commandments for a rock-bottom intellectual. -- Catharsis: concerning Jan Palach. -- Jan Palach's last letter -- To Jan Palach, living torch number one, by Jan Zajíc, living torch number two -- Last poem, by Jan Zajíc.