Another bright name in the “New Odessa Humor” series is Vyacheslav Verkhovsky. Although he lives in Donetsk, all the texts collected in this book first saw the light in Odessa, on the pages of the humorous magazine “Fontan”. Vyacheslav Verkhovsky - fighter. He is always torn between self-love and love for people. When the first wins, he becomes sad, when the second, he starts joking. It’s not clear how it all fits together in him?! Subtle, highly lyrical and - sparrow-like, hooligan, perky, in-your-own-mind. Sometimes the humor of his little things is removed from the surface of “everyday life” - but as soon as you insert a scale into a frame, it becomes an aphorism. Good training: if you peck at Verkhov’s phrases, you yourself begin to shoot with your eyes and unfurl your ears. The world is filled with laughter. Someone else's stupidity no longer angers you, because you hunt for it like a psycho entomologist hunts for a rare cockroach. The imperfection of the world is the soil where irony and humor grow. Verkhovsky is harvesting!