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[Alexandr Korol]

Maybe it can enter someone and tell you: “Don’t you dare leave bad comments under Alexandr Korol’s books.” Maybe someone will say that to you. Just don’t think it’s me. I’m just an ordinary writer, like you, an ordinary person, but there is some kind of force — better to be friends with it.

I didn’t ask what the messenger’s name was at that time, but there was such an incident. There were several other incidents. There was a messenger, I remember. There was a messenger near the “Alexandr Nevsky” metro station. I was sitting with an acquaintance, her name was Ksyusha, I think. It was 2012, if I’m not mistaken. We were sitting in a café, and there was a woman sitting there with a white wig, bright hair, about fifty years old. She looked... I don’t know how to explain. She was talking again about America. All made-up, painted. And I still didn’t understand what she was trying to convey, but she kept talking about America, about America. She was sitting far away and then suddenly said to me, “What are you staring at?” – “Look at your woman instead.” And one of the men, there was a couple of men and women sitting, one of the men said to her, “Listen, don’t yell at the whole restaurant, have some respect.” She replied, “Shut up, or I’ll deal with you right now.” The man was in shock, almost ready to fight, and the others at the table were holding him back. I said, “Calm down.” Imagine how brave I was. I went to the woman, sat down at her table, and said:

– Hello.
– What are you here for?
– What do you want?
– I don’t want anything.
– What do you want to say?
– I don’t want to say anything.

And then she started talking about America again. Seriously, I don’t know why I didn’t write down or keep what she told me at that time, but she was definitely a messenger. Because she created the same “cosmos,” provoked the people just like the others, and revealed that I was the only one not in the system. This is how they operate. If you want to know — you asked a question — I described how these messengers interact: they make it so that if you’re sitting