Alexandr Korol

They give me an award or a medal. And everything’s great, and I just use that money to finish building in Karelia and live there. Maybe the higher powers will allow me to start a family — then I will. Five kids. I’ll live there, then. That’s one scenario. Another scenario — global warming, everything’s flooding, everything’s burning. The safest place is the North — and I’ve got Karelia. I’ll be in Karelia because cities are dangerous, there’s looting, and I’ll stay there. Maybe that’s what Karelia is for — I don’t know. Maybe I’ll have some kind of realization that, in order to not be overwhelmed, to stay out of the social world, out of society, the human world — I need my own place, like an estate, just like I used to think. Maybe that’s what it’s for, just some kind of psychological feng shui. That’s why everyone used to live on their estates — it’ll just be my own real estate. Maybe. In the movie “The Da Vinci Code,” Tom Hanks and the girl go visit a man who’s a scientist-collector, living alone on an estate, with his own plane, and he lives there with an assistant. I look at that scene in the movie and I think: yes, that’s me in the future, very much like that — sitting with my books, my library, my artifacts, watching the news, studying the world. Totally possible. Or maybe something else will happen — maybe some serious people will finally notice me. They won’t believe that it’s science fiction, that it’s just a first-person novel, and they’ll want to investigate what I’ve got in Karelia. And they’ll come with the military, because scientists and the military are always close. And they’ll study everything in the anomalous zone, looking for that underground metro that’s hidden beneath, they’ll unearth the sarcophagus — and inside, it’s me, only from another time. Who knows, maybe that’s what will happen. Or maybe, again, it’s about timing — maybe it’s not for this time at all. Maybe it’s all meant for 300 years from now. Maybe someone will find my book in 300 years, and through the book they’ll discover the place, go there and uncover something, because the system decided, and “they” — those who run everything — decided that it should only be revealed 300 years later, and that my book should be found only after 300 years. That could be the story.

Question: When you were living in America, exploring crystals and stones, you met a boy who was studying crystals. You referred to him as an entity. In what way did that manifest?