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[Alexandr Korol]

Question: At the end of the first volume, you realize that you are in the future, and that this voice is also you, that you were guiding yourself from the future, that you created the time machine there. Can you explain how you understood this, how you came to that realization?

Well, it was August 29 or 30. I remember that in the last couple of days I had been sitting with a sheet of paper and a pen, just like I am now, and again I was making this list. Seven continents or eight? Seven colors or eight? Seven planets or eight? Seven days — where’s the eighth? Then these months again, seasons, how all of this is divided into groups, how we have daily time that is split into morning, day, evening, and night. But most of all, I really focused then on the zodiac signs, which are divided into four elements. And accordingly, I divided everything into — so I divided all these twelve months into groups, into seasons, into these cycles, into times of the year. And when I began dividing and sketching all of this out, I came to the realization that it was like a triangle, and it had three of these points — if the triangle is flat, yes, it has these three points — and that this is just like the three months in a season, for example, September, October, November. That’s a triangle. And it was as if this triangle, if you make it three- dimensional — a tetrahedron — then I saw it like a crystal, as if one side, or when it’s turned a certain way, represents certain months. And if you turn it another way, it’s different months. Turn it another way — different months again. In essence, it’s not twelve months, it’s just a triangle that, because of time, changes its properties, becoming one season, then another, then a third, then a fourth. And in each of these four seasons there are three months. I saw something like that, and then — it’s like this folding and unfolding, which readers enjoy — the folding and unfolding of the matrix. Not in a literal sense, like something changing physically in the world. I mean the matrix that I’m sketching, that I began to realize that everything is as if it’s one. But then it’s spread out into all these stages, into all these positions according to the cardinal directions and so on — as if it’s one and the same object. But the same object can have different properties depending on the angle you’re looking at it from, depending on where the sun is shining from. Or depending on the cardinal directions. And then I saw this triangle. Then I saw it on icons. Then I realized that this triangle really is time, because there’s the future, the past, and the present.