When does the truth come? When does the saving skill of separating the wheat from the chaff, illusions from the ideal, appear? Do we have to wait for a rare snowfall in the violet haze, in which illusions, fantasy and reality suddenly unite in a mystical lace of events to finally collectively remove the veil from tired eyes? Or do you have to experience extraordinary love, when illusions one after another turn into dust and ashes? Or be able to preserve, in the rabid proletarian extremism that attempted to change the basis of life, the pure light of the soul, with which they once “led youth to the Kronstadt ice,” as semi-finished human material for future generations. Or even through a passion for newfangled health practices to see the true path to personal immortality, exactly repeating the well-known postulate “from the great to the ridiculous one step.” Be able to resist age-old misconceptions. One way or another, to one degree or another, all this is said in the proposed collection. For greater thoroughness, two stories from the book “Pyramids of Criminal Desires” have been added, and as a subtle intrigue - two chapters from the book “The Russian Axis of the Wheel of Samsara”, the epigraph to which is lines from the novel “19Q4” by Haruki Marakami and one of the principles of the legendary George Gurdjieff .