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[Alexandr Korol]

but they simply don’t see the boundaries, so everything seems infinite. But there is a beginning and an end, without that, he says, it just doesn’t work. That’s what Big Alexander told me.
Then I also asked the Mystic-Old-Man and Big Alexander about this — that I have a hypothesis, that it’s strange that the star I found is called Mercury. But by all descriptions it matches what is called the star of Lucifer, not Hermes, and that it’s this bright star in the twilight, and that it’s actually Venus, not Mercury, because they write the same thing about it. The Mystic-Old-Man confirmed it fifty-fifty, saying “partly yes, if it’s a different systemness.” And Big Alexander said something similar, that yes.