Almost a thousand miniatures, works in one line, are published in this book. Capacious, laconic phrases with a high semantic and figurative concentration fall on paper as a “transcription of thought,” according to the author himself, and are addressed to the intelligent reader. The philosophical basis of Alexander Korotko’s miniatures is generously colored with irony, humor, and satire. Some of his works surprise with the unexpectedness of their metaphors, others paraphrase established expressions and intrigue with a paradoxical play on words, which allows us to talk about the author’s involvement in the literature of the absurd. Among the abundance of one-liners, apt aphoristic statements are scattered, and lovers of the poetic word will find monosychs on the pages of the book. The structure will help you navigate such semantic and genre diversity: the miniatures are united according to a thematic principle.