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[Alexandr Korol]

That is when he feels this support, and then his mind is switched on, and he is calm — these are the people who live by the mind in the world of people. And suddenly I began to feel, at some moment when I was a little tired, partly closed off by everyday life, and then I had thoughts appear, like maybe I should rent myself a small house now for three months. And I think, “How good, I will rent a house, move my things, calm down.” And when I begin to think this, I feel two different feelings, as though there are two versions of me. And I feel that my mind would feel good if I did this, but at the same time I correctly feel that I would lose all the magic, and everything would again become empty and not magical. And I understand that no matter how frightened I may be — and it is only the mind that is frightened — that I must not rush to decide what house to rent for three months. I must not, because the magic will end immediately. I must not immediately become attached to some colleague or friend. I must not immediately become attached to some hotel, the longer you want to rent it, the more comfortable it feels, because you calm down. No — it is good precisely when you book a hotel today, and tomorrow you do not know where you will go further, and you will only think about it tomorrow. And this uncertainty makes the whole world immediately unique, magical, like in the film “Interstate 60,” like in the film “Big Fish,” like in the film “Hook” from the 90s, when at first he did not see all the food and did not know how to fly, and then all of it appeared. And now I must record and write down in my drafts, in my notes, all these observations, in order to tell the readers what it is, what this world is, the one with which God had already acquainted you earlier in childhood.

That is, the system, God, showed you this world earlier, even let you live in it a little, then took it away, then gave it again — all of it was preparation. And it was all so that later, when the time came, you would fully enter into it and remain in it forever — this is a good world. But I will say this, I know what a person is thinking now, many readers might think, someone might immediately ask: “Explain, Alexandr, so is this the world of heaven or is it the world of the dead in the underworld?” You must not think about that now. That is the whole point — that the ninth volume is no longer about this. Of course, I will still observe certain boundaries, but already that is