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[Alexandr Korol]

people, so you won’t meet anyone with horns, they’re simply people who somehow tempt or provoke you. They are like circumstances that try to lead you off the bright path. For example, they might tempt you, seduce you, or push you into committing a bad deed, a crime. And this could be just your friend or acquaintance, someone you met at football or in the gym. If you go against nature and the soul and agree to it, well, then the system will put you through the grinder, quite literally. And there are various such demons, and the toughest demons are those who change your angle of perception, those who try to convince you otherwise. So, figuratively speaking, a boy named Lyosha falls in love with Olya, and he sees her as a wonderful person, but then some demon, like his friend, starts to convince Lyosha of how bad Olya is and begins to tune Lyosha into seeing her from a different angle, from a different perspective. We all have different perspectives. The point is that the demon shows you how to look at her from a bad perspective to see all the bad things. The truth is, it doesn’t mean that it’s really like that. You just start to see things distorted because the demon sets that prism for you. And he starts to tune you into thinking Olya is bad, and you end up leaving Olya. These demons are everywhere now. And I often noticed this with readers – a person reads my book, then they quit drinking, quit smoking, started going to church, made up with their mother – everything seems great. Imagine how the book inspired the person. Like, in principle, all different types of creative work. Those who write books or make films, they send out some kind of message, and they really do inspire many people to do something. And imagine, a person becomes cool, refreshed, takes control of themselves, when before, they were gloomy and didn’t want to live. And they got inspired by the book, they believed in themselves, they believed in something higher. Then suddenly, they have a friend, a classmate, or a relative who starts telling them, “The book is bad, the writer is bad, look at him, look at his eyes, he’s a demon.” And most often, demons are the ones who try to set you against someone, and they most often call people demons, which is funny. And that’s how they start. And if you start listening to that demon, meaning you start falling under its influence, it’s like hypnosis, and you begin to perceive not only the writer and the books negatively, but the whole world and yourself. You start seeing everything negatively, like everything is terribly bad, and everyone is bad, and that’s what the demon does. The point is, you can change your angle