Sometimes muses cannot inspire the creator, then Pegasus Ц a horse with wings, the son of Medusa and Poseidon, and a popular caricature character Ц comes (or flies) and helps.

In the caricatures Pegasus usually flies in the sky with an artist on his back. In BidstrupТs pictures Pegasus is pneumatic, and moreover, it can transform into a bicycle. Pegasus can throw anything on the head of an artist Ц a horse shoe , for example, O. Kallas, 1974. Pegasus is one of the characters in J. EffelТs УWorld CreationФ. In the pictures by H. Heibus and I. Semenov УSpring meeting of the young poetsФ we can learn everything about the artists looking at his\her Pegasus.

Life of Pegasus depends on the man. If a man is a pianist Pegasus eats hay right from the piano; if a man is a farmer Pegasus works as a draught-horse. When Pegasus gets old a wicked master can take it to slaughter-house and get some money to buy a new car (series of caricatures by E. Vedernikov. УKrokodilФ, 1967).

Pegasus can look like a typing machine. (L. Samoilov. УKrokodilФ, 1970), like an airplane (S. Tunin).

УSome critics attack not the poets but their musesФ(M. Kuzmin). The critics advice only annoy the writers. It began in the primitive society when the artists drew their pictures on the stones, and their muses were the most beautiful women in the tribes. The reaction to the critics was the fight.