In the literary vignette "Prayer" (1881), Ivan Turgenev said that: "Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: 'Great God, grant that twice two be not four'." In "God and the State" (1882), Bakunin dismissed deism: "Imagine a philosophical vinegar sauce of the most opposed systems, a mixture of Fathers of the Church, scholastic philosophers, Descartes and Pascal, Kant and Scottish psychologists, all this a superstructure on the divine and innate ideas of Plato, and covered up with a layer of Hegelian immanence, accompanied, of course, by an ignorance, as contemptuous as it is complete, of natural science, and proving just as two times two make five; the existence of a personal god." Moreover, the slogan "two plus two equals five", is the title of the collection of absurdist short stories "Deux et deux font cinq" ("Two and Two Make Five", 1895), by Alphonse Allais; and the title of the imagist art manifesto "2 x 2 = 5" (1920), by the poet Vadim Shershenevich.