This book is about the indissolubility of human connections. About an attempt to escape from the ordinary, an inextricable interweaving of lies, or rather, fiction, with real life ("Through Line"); reflections on what fate is, if it changes so abruptly due to seemingly insignificant events ("First and Last"); a long farewell to life, in which "then" and "now," everyday revelry and eternity, the understanding that everything ends and nothing passes ("Cheerful funeral")...