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[Alexandr Korol]

The same goes for my book. My book can make something bloom — it can water the flower, give it nourishment. And just like with a flower — the kind of bud that opens, whether the petals are red or yellow — that’s your genetics, that’s your code, that’s your family, that’s already you. If you’re angry and unbalanced, that’s what will awaken in you. And it’s your relatives and ancestors who passed that gene to you. But if you’re a bright, creative person and after reading the books you start composing classical music, then that means something beautiful was awakened in you. Do you understand? This book — it’s more like 220 volts of electricity than an attempt to impose anything. So yes, when you come into contact with art, when you travel the world, when you visit the most unique museums in the world, when you see all of that and come into contact with it, something inside you can awaken. But what awakens in you is your seed, your own seed. Whether it’s the Egyptian pyramids, a trip to Cairo, or the book “Alternative History,” what you awaken inside yourself — that’s up to you. You see, if you later become a brilliant scientist who invents a cure for all diseases, it’s not because I wrote a book about diseases. My book is about gods. And the museum in Cairo — it’s about gods too. But it’s something that may have triggered something in you, awakened something high, vast, spiritual. And suddenly you become a super-genius scientist or doctor who invents a cure for all diseases. But in Egypt, there was no museum dedicated to medicine and diseases. And I didn’t write a book about medicine and diseases either. And a person who is a coward, full of weaknesses and sins, might visit a museum, or read my book, or watch a film — and become frightened, and then afraid to even leave the house. And that’s not the museum’s fault, not the book’s, not the film’s — it’s him, it’s his genes. You’d have to figure out what happened in his childhood, what his parents were like, who raised him, what kind of genes he inherited — something like that. So your question about whether DNA changes or not... well, visually, of course, we want to wrap all these feelings and experiences in some kind of packaging. Just like some people feel wild inspiration — so much so that they feel dizzy — when encountering works of art, like paintings in the Louvre, others feel something similar from my books. But if you try to document it — nothing changed. It’s just a kind of mood. You’re connecting to something different, you understand? You can watch a travel vlog on YouTube right now, and in that moment, you might feel great, because your mind is satisfied by the information