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[Alexandr Korol]

books, I can spend the whole year doing that at home. But again, I’m not some wild person: I shower, shave, and do exercises. In this regard, everything is fine. My place is never dirty. It’s impossible for someone to come into my apartment and find empty aluminum cans from beer lying around with chips, as sometimes they show creative people or programmers. That doesn’t happen to me, no depression, nothing. Yes, I may threaten an employee who’s been irresponsible, for example, if they lost all my animals on the farm and let them loose in the forest. Naturally, I’ll tell them they’re irresponsible bastards, but that’s normal, it’s human. After all, I’m still human. I’ll put it this way: only some people, as I’ve noticed, from small towns in Russia, where there are all sorts of uncultured people from bad families, always speak badly of me and make up nasty things about me, just because they envy me. And there are also the show-offs, who just came to St. Petersburg and Moscow, now they look “rich and fancy,” and they also act all in character and are ashamed of me because they are in character and think they’re great, but it’s these people who don’t like me. All the others, the simpler the person, the more sincere the person – this is very important, just Google what “sincere person” means – all sincere people love me. All those who try to act like they’re great, they’re the ones with the complexes, they judge each other, they immediately see me as competition, it starts to shake them, and they immediately want to somehow expose me. Why? Because they are fake. And I see it, and plus, they see that people admire me more than them, and it shakes them even more. And they, you see, barely created their own illusion, and then here I am. And so they start saying: “Look at this King, he’s like this, he’s like that.” I say: “Yes, fine, I’m nobody, I’m a loser. But I don’t talk about you at all. But as soon as I stand next to you, you already feel like a fake.” It’s these fake people who get upset. Although, ironically, it’s very silly, because I don’t judge them. On the contrary, if this person said: “Alex, I admit, I’m a fake, help me,” I would help. But no. It’s everyone’s choice. Obviously, the protagonist of the book, that is, me, Alexandr Korol, in this “Alternative History” – is the same boy, like in the movie “Powder,” who doesn’t do anything bad, but everyone says about him that he attacked us, he’s so bad, he’s this... But he actually just wants someone to be his friend. But yes, he just can’t talk about butts and cars with you, he just wants to talk about why there are so many different types of bugs in the world. And after that, you say: “Ah, he’s talking about bugs, he’s sick!” It’s such a time. I’d rather talk about bugs and write books about it.