One of the early stories by Vitaly Amutnykh. First publication in the magazine “Fourth Dimension No. 1, 1992” Included in the collection “Matarapuna” (Tale and Stories, M. Literary Fund of the RSFSR, 1992) ISBN 5-85320-026-7. Intro. article by S. Esin. — 1992................................................. The world is paradoxical and fantastic. And so a man, deafened, disfigured by an avalanche of incongruous circumstances of reality, no longer understanding his own life, strives to find support in some incredible miracle. Some see him in distant lands, some in an ideal woman, and others are looking for Bigfoot . But the moment comes, and the miracle sought on the other side of oneself turns out to be an ordinary rationalistic calculation... The prose of Vitaly Amutnykh, this sad scoffer, represents at the same time a multi-plot panorama of provincial life, and a search for moral, intellectual, aesthetic guidelines of the so-called “deceived generation.”