Imagine a person who first crawls into a chest on their own, closes the lid—and then starts to suffocate in that chest. And when a bout of claustrophobia brings them to total exhaustion, they suddenly open their eyes and realize: there is no chest! It’s gone, and the person is simply lying on the floor. That’s basically what all the stories in this audiobook are about. Or that’s what they’re for—to make all those chests disappear, one after another. The story “Forty-Third” was published in the collection “Nаdа,” and the story “The Head and the Lyre Drifting over the Gebr” was published in the collection “Maps on the Table.” Doing without them was simply impossible—those stories scatter chests so efficiently.