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[Alexandr Korol]

So, going back to the question about the Mystic-Old-Man, when he said that people would read — well, maybe that’s just one aspect of it too. But if a person doesn’t like my book, if they’re bitter and from a different world, then why would they even want to read it and sneer at me? But you see, the Mystic-Old- Man said that this is how it would be — that there would be many people, and all their negativity would come out, and they’d be freed from it, but they’d dump it all onto me. I don’t know what exactly he meant by that. Maybe it really will be that people, for some reason, will want to read my book, and if they have a lot of darkness and pain inside, it will start to boil up and they’ll dump it all onto me. But then afterward, they’ll supposedly become kind — logically, they should become pure and kind. And hopefully, later they’ll feel sorry for me. And yes, about the number — 19 million people — I think the Mystic-Old-Man specifically meant that there would be a moment when people on planet Earth, at least 19 million of them in a single day, would be reading the book simultaneously, meaning they’d be tuned into it. And then it’s like something would happen. So what would happen? They would enter this world. They would tune into that, let’s say, frequency. Right now, my book “Alternative History” is truly unreadable. Seriously. And I completely understand people, no judgment whatsoever. On the contrary, I understand them more than anyone, because I’ve lived through this all my life and know exactly how it works. I can even give an example. Look, there are films like “Angel-A,” “Peaceful Warrior,” and “The Fountain.” Here’s the example — those three films: “Angel-A,” “The Fountain,” “Peaceful Warrior.” When I’m truly — let me put it crudely, don’t take the wording too literally — when I’m outside of society, but truly within myself, and that can happen to people for various reasons. Maybe someone hurt you, maybe something happened, or maybe you just entered this corridor I call it, for pleasant reasons. But when you’re like that, when your mind is off, when you’re truly within yourself, and you really... you don’t think about what happened yesterday, you don’t think about tomorrow, you’re just here and now, just as if you’re with God, as if you feel only yourself and your inner world. Or, on the contrary, you feel only yourself and think about God or the Universe. And when you’re like that, when your mind is as quiet as possible, when you’re so calm, then if you put on the film “Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life” or “The Fountain,” or “Donnie Darko,” or “Peaceful Warrior” — something from that group — when you watch those films