When There Are No Free Taxis Nearby and You Still Have to Get to Work

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

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

When There Are No Free Taxis Nearby and You Still Have to Get to Work

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s