“The Slit” is a book offering new knowledge about the damned questions of existence, deeply infused with the creativity of outrageous and extreme writers—from literary classics to contemporaries. It features an analysis of borderline states: between faith and knowledge, death and immortality, reason and madness, and love and cynicism. It contains creative fantasies, spanning from traditional Russian sacred tales to American comics. This book is for everyone who intends to live life meaningfully.