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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2025 7:52 am
Introduction
So unexpectedly — one day I wake up and feel completely different. I last experienced this feeling a long time ago, when I was on road journeys. My perception of everything has changed so much: before, I loved black T-shirts, but now I want to wear a white one. I want to listen to completely different music — some soundtracks from films about travel. And my attitude toward people and toward everything has also changed: there is such warmth and lightness inside, as if I have fallen in love. And, just as suddenly and unusually, different interesting symbols and signs begin to stand out to me. At first, I noticed how one guy had a four-leaf clover on his shorts, and then, throughout the week, the word “fortune” kept appearing to me again and again. I decided to figure out what this was and where I had found myself.
As it turned out, this is a new world, the world of the sky. And everything that was highlighted to me are elements that exist in this world — fortune and luck. Throughout this entire volume of “Alternative History” I am gathering a mold, that is, a list of these elements of the world of the sky, to capture it. These are various symbols and places connected with luck. And it is a very unusual, magical world.
But what is amusing is that I had already been there as a child, and now I am beginning to remember it all again. It feels as if I am the main character in the movie Hook with Robin Williams — when he, as an adult, returns to the magical world and tries to remember that he is Peter Pan. And he realizes how much he has grown up and forgotten how to fly. That is exactly what I am experiencing now. And I decided to capture all of this in the new volume of my novel.
So unexpectedly — one day I wake up and feel completely different. I last experienced this feeling a long time ago, when I was on road journeys. My perception of everything has changed so much: before, I loved black T-shirts, but now I want to wear a white one. I want to listen to completely different music — some soundtracks from films about travel. And my attitude toward people and toward everything has also changed: there is such warmth and lightness inside, as if I have fallen in love. And, just as suddenly and unusually, different interesting symbols and signs begin to stand out to me. At first, I noticed how one guy had a four-leaf clover on his shorts, and then, throughout the week, the word “fortune” kept appearing to me again and again. I decided to figure out what this was and where I had found myself.
As it turned out, this is a new world, the world of the sky. And everything that was highlighted to me are elements that exist in this world — fortune and luck. Throughout this entire volume of “Alternative History” I am gathering a mold, that is, a list of these elements of the world of the sky, to capture it. These are various symbols and places connected with luck. And it is a very unusual, magical world.
But what is amusing is that I had already been there as a child, and now I am beginning to remember it all again. It feels as if I am the main character in the movie Hook with Robin Williams — when he, as an adult, returns to the magical world and tries to remember that he is Peter Pan. And he realizes how much he has grown up and forgotten how to fly. That is exactly what I am experiencing now. And I decided to capture all of this in the new volume of my novel.