A collection of miniatures and stories, united by the common theme of the illusory nature of the world: they intertwine fiction and reality, hoaxes and reliable facts. The texts collected together reveal “the sought-after connections between Mesopotamian Babylon, the Cossack capital of Novocherkassk, Catullus’ Rome and the Don farms, on the outskirts of which strange figures can be found.” Silence has meaning. It is this that forms the foundation of Yugurund speech. For example, Yugurund words or, more strictly speaking, the word-like sound complexes Yavin and Kalahur do not mean anything in themselves. But if you say - yavin, and then, after remaining silent for exactly eleven seconds, say - kalahur, then the adjective “immortal” appears... he does not so much deny time, but says that there is no past and future, but there is only one indivisible and eternal The present or, as he puts it, the present of the present, the present of the past and the present of the future. Between them, in his understanding, there is absolutely no difference, due to which not only all things, but also people, events, actions have the divine property of non-extinction. Everything is as it is, and everything is always there: it never began to be, it abided forever and will not pass away forever.