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[Alexandr Korol]

Mystic-Old-Man: Well, that’s it. What exists is what exists.
Alexandr: Alright. And when will the chemical reaction of outside people’s attention toward me start after this book?
Mystic-Old-Man: Well, the chemical reaction won’t happen soon. That year 2037 keeps coming up again for some reason.
Alexandr: And specifically, the growth in the number of people interested in my books – what will that look like?
Mystic-Old-Man: The growth is already happening, in its own way. And as for the chemical reaction, as you called it...
Alexandr: Alright, but what about a surge? A real surge...
Mystic-Old-Man: That’s 2037, and there will be a surge. Otherwise, it will just keep growing steadily, as it is now, and it will continue.
Alexandr: So in the coming years, there won’t be a major surge, meaning, figuratively speaking, I have now...
Mystic-Old-Man: There won’t be a major surge, but it will be enough. The third book already exists, and that is what it is – it will continue to be, to some extent, regardless.
Alexandr: I just don’t know who reads me. In percentage terms, is it 50/50 between Russian readers and foreigners? Or do more Russian-speaking people read me?
Mystic-Old-Man: More Russian-speaking readers.
Alexandr: And should that remain the same, or should I focus more on an English-speaking audience?
Mystic-Old-Man: You can focus on the Russian audience because here it’s a stable 50 percent. If you take the entire Western and Eastern audience, it can rise to about 30 percent in various countries, but overall, beyond Russia, it reaches around 30 percent. In Russia, it’s 50... That’s 50 stable readers, and beyond that, there’s a significant number of fluctuating readers – those who become interested, then lose interest, then become interested again, then lose interest.
Alexandr: So does this depend on people, on nature, on higher forces, on extraterrestrials, or on me?
Mystic-Old-Man: On everything. It depends on the entire complex.
Alexandr: Alright, that’s all, no more questions. Thank you very much, goodbye.