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[Alexandr Korol]

watch that film. They tattoo themselves with Tarot card images. So what? On the one hand, sure, fine — at least these people, through the film you named, got introduced to something like the Platonic solids. And now they’ll go around painting those geometric figures on their canvases and bodies, and everyone else will think they must know something. I’m sorry, but I must be this strict in order to maintain boundaries — you understand? I’m not attacking you personally. I don’t care what anyone’s name is. What matters is that there’s a clear boundary between chaos and order — this is very important — between fake and real. These boundaries must be seen and upheld, because we are living in a mythic time, a profane time, a time when chaos rules people’s minds. So your question — it’s very strange: unclear, scattered, unstructured. And what of it? You talk about Platonic solids, and what? What does that mean? What’s the point? What does a movie about Platonic solids have to do with this? The fact that I speak about Platonic solids, that they are present in my geometric figure — at least you could have asked a question like: “Alexandr, in the second volume of “Alternative History,” when you decipher the matrix, you state that all regular polyhedra — also known as Platonic solids — fit into this matrix. Is that how the universe is structured?” — now that would’ve been a question. But the way you asked it? Completely unclear. What does that movie have to do with me? Where’s the question? What are you trying to say? It’s confusing. Imagine this: you tell me all about a film, about Platonic solids, and then you ask me, “Am I thinking in the right direction?” The right direction about what? That you watched the film? That the film mentioned Platonic solids, and I did too in my book? So what? What exactly is “right thinking” here? That you saw the same term in both places? Do you want to see the Spirit of Justice in me now? Alright — enough games. Yes, it turns out there are five Platonic solids. Many ancient scholars and mathematicians wrote and spoke about them — not just Plato. And so, there is the triangle, which is the tetrahedron, and it’s very important for everyone to know this. You won’t be able to decipher the matrix or grasp the second volume if you don’t know these five Platonic solids — these five regular polyhedra. The first one is the triangle, but in its three-dimensional form, where all sides are equal. This triangle has four faces — four, which is very important. That’s the tetrahedron. Then there’s the octahedron. The octahedron is something else — it’s a pyramid. A pyramid like in Egypt. So, imagine that on the ground we draw