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[Alexandr Korol]

and I need to pull myself together to work on the book — then I’ll choose a stone that fits my current state. If the combination of my condition and that stone helps me focus and stay put, that’s the one I need. I only need focus and staying power — I’m a writer. But if I put on a stone and I start hearing every sound outside the window and my attention scatters, then clearly that stone isn’t the right one for me today, you see?

Question: When Big Alexander handed you the metal object made of thirteen metals and the papyrus, what did he mean when he said, “We have won. There is no way back. We are waiting for hour X”?

Yes, that was very strange. It was already 2020, I had already returned to Russia. I was planning, but hadn’t yet moved to Karelia — I moved there around the May holidays, in May. So this was before May, or maybe in May — something like that, springtime. And back then there were often moments — yes, 2020 was an unusual year — there were moments I just didn’t know how to define, but the Spirit was already present again. I just didn’t assign it significance at the time. Back then I started having unusual dreams, where I first saw a cylinder — but it wasn’t about the cylinder itself, it was more about how they showed me that if you place dots on it and look at it from four different sides, you count 12 dots. But in reality, there are 8. Because, if we’re looking at the cylinder — just imagine looking at the cylinder — you see a dot here, and then as it curves around, there are two dots here. But those two dots are actually the same ones you see when looking from the other side. You see? These dots are for both this side and that side. And so, they gave me a clue as to how the world is built — why no one can really see anything — because the same thing can also be something else. And that’s when the whole topic began — when I started studying what light is, how light is structured, the light trap, the light in the labyrinth, and how light seems to shine from one side, creating shadow on the other. I needed to use a cylinder — at the time, I used a lint roller I had, and I marked those dots on it, I drew it out. It wasn’t tied to any specific book, but I understood that what was happening was part of the novel “Alternative History”, and not any of my other books. I also explained back then the idea that these dots I was now making all the way through — meaning there’s an entry and an exit hole — that this was very important: