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# When There Are No Free Taxis Nearby and You Still Have to Get to Work
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/kogda-poblizosti-net-svobodnykh-taksi-a-na-rabotu-ekhat-nado/
- Published: 2025-11-02T08:47:10.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:28:12.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, Books, Observations, Humour

> After galloping with me for half a day, she left me beside a forest

The eighteenth-century traveller has saddled up the heavily feathered future: he dreamed of wings, but got an ostrich.

The engraving from the book *Voyages imaginaires, songes, visions et romans cabalistiques* turns out to depict an exotic holiday on a realistic budget. In the eighteenth century, "imaginary voyages" meant roughly what we now call a post with AI-generated pictures. In the end, reading these "dreams and visions", one understands: the true journey lies not in distant lands, but in the depths of one's own imagination