Alexandr Korol

It truly feels like I’m within myself, like I don’t sense time, news, the country, or even how old I am — just here and now, like an autistic person. That’s why I put on the film “Rain Man”, then “Powder”, because I started to feel extremely detached. Maybe I’m just feeling such a contrast after the Christmas and New Year holidays. I was switching between the material, daily life, and “cosmos,” and maybe I just dove so deeply into this “cosmos” from working on the matrix that it completely shifted me — I don’t know. Plus, the system communicates with me in a very unusual way. It really always highlights things for me through every film, any site, social media, messages — it draws my attention exactly where it needs to go. And imagine, since early yesterday morning, I woke up at 6 or 5 AM, the system was highlighting Achilles for me everywhere. I often enjoy reading Wikipedia and learning all sorts of things. And here, while reading just one article — again, Achilles. And to clarify, I was simply reading about the Stroganov Dacha in Petersburg. Just for some reason I felt I needed to read about it again, like I needed to go there. And again there they say — rumors, or maybe not even rumors, just that it’s possible — that... well, not a grave, but something about Achilles is connected to that place. And I thought, “Achilles again, even here.” And then I kept encountering things about Troy — not the first time — and now the system is once again highlighting Troy for me. I was reading about Troy and noticed Homer wrote it. I thought, “Maybe I’m a philosopher like him? Maybe he was describing the same kind of era. That was the Trojan War. Maybe what’s happening now is the same thing? Maybe not physically, not literally, but a sacred language.” I started thinking that way. Then I started to consider that maybe, since he wrote mythology, it’s really worth paying attention to this Achilles figure. While reading about Achilles, I came across something that mentioned that someone considered him the god of death. I thought, “God of death again? What’s going on?” Everything intertwines so interestingly. And it’s truly fascinating that Troy was on the side of Apollo, and Achilles was associated with death. That’s very interesting, too. So, I ended up watching “Troy” for three hours — the one with Brad Pitt, which I hadn’t seen in a long time — and honestly, I didn’t really find any clear signs in the film. The only part I liked was when he was fighting, and there’s that really powerful soundtrack — those heavy, solemn drums — and he’s leaping and fighting,