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[Alexandr Korol]

but the point is that everybody got into some strange state. When I told it, it was as if time stopped, as if we were suspended in space, and as if we got into some vacuum. After that, a person did not understand whether it was a minute or five hours. And after that, when we went out on the street to go home, who went in a taxi, who took the metro, many people wrote or called me and told me that they were in such a state they hardly came to their senses, or the next day they only came to their senses. What’s that? When I told them this, they fell into this state, which I was experiencing at that time, and what I tell them, I return to this state, and they listen to it and get connected to it. This frequency, this rhythm that I was on then. That “cosmos” You know? And I remember a man saying to me:

– Have I been hypnotized?

I don’t believe in hypnosis to this day, and no one has ever shown it to me. I don’t know how to do it myself and I think it’s rubbish to be shown hypnosis. So, a person asked me if it was hypnosis. And I say:

– What the hell is hypnosis? What are you talking about?
– What was that?
– What happened?
– Well, I am feeling strange.
– Well, I’m always in it.
– You don’t understand, Alex. It’s as if you don’t remember at all what was be- fore, what you planned next and in general you can’t gather your thoughts.
– Yeah, I’m always like this.

You see? And so is “Alternative History”. It’s the same thing. I mean, I can go into your frequencies. And imagine that now, especially on this holiday, I feel like you people. I was on your frequencies. And imagine that I will now connect to these frequencies and read the first volume of “Alternative History”. I clearly know at what moments, in what plots, and at what points in the story the connection happens. And especially in the beginning, it happens when the very beginning of the book, where I begin to tell it all that happens in the year two thousand and ten, connects strongly. Then there are periods of the novel