Alexandr Korol

through this trial right now, it was given to me in a particularly intense form, where it’s clear that it’s almost like a conspiracy, and it’s obvious that this kind of thing doesn’t happen in real life — not to other people, not to me. And here it’s like it was done on purpose, and I was like — “whoa.” So you see, he even knows what needs to be done. Who is he, really? How does he know what to do? But I don’t forget that moment, the way he communicates is so unique — it’s important to remember that almost all of his conversations with me are allegories, just like my book, really, the entire mythological story. He might spend the entire novel telling me a flying saucer will come. And in the end, it might never come, but the point is the journey itself, and he’s encouraging and inspiring me with that idea of the flying saucer. And maybe it doesn’t exist, never has, never will. I see that his psyche is structured in such a way — actually very similar to mine — that he might genuinely wait for that flying saucer or for a Nobel Prize. But I don’t wait for anything. No, of course I’m curious to fully decode the matrix. I mean, what is “Alternative History”? It’s the adventure of a boy — me — from the first person, a boy searching for the philosopher’s stone. It’s the journey. The journey is to understand the matrix, to understand the entire structure of the world — that’s what the philosopher’s stone is, and one must become it. One must understand the full design of the world and everything in it, and become that world, dissolve into it. That’s what this book is. And maybe right now this book isn’t of much interest to a wide audience, because it’s just the journey a boy is still going through. But I think that when the book is finally finished, and ends with the boy actually finding the philosopher’s stone, then perhaps in the future people will be interested in reading it — because it won’t be a book about a boy searching for the philosopher’s stone, but about a boy who actually found it. And that’s a different story. That’s why there are still so many mysteries and secrets, including who I am, who Big Alexander is, and what “Alternative History” really is. But honestly, there have been moments when Big Alexander has almost directly hinted to me that he knows everything. He even said straight up that he’s not like me — someone who needs to remember something or figure something out — he already knows everything and controls it all. That’s how it is. But again, maybe he’s just an ordinary janitor, and it’s the Spirit speaking through him, saying that He’s always here and controls everything. And as a person with a passport, he’s just a shell being used.