Alexandr Korol

Chapter 22. Korol V.I.

Conversation of a reader with the mystic-old-man

Reader: I have such a question. Here I will imagine one person.
Mystic-old-man: Right.
Reader: And I will imagine one family.
Mystic-old-man: Right.
Reader: Is there some kind of connection between them?
Mystic-old-man: There is.
Reader: And what kind? And what is the connection there?
Mystic-old-man: There is a mutually... It’s not interest, but it’s attention
somehow switched on. Quite strange. Exactly attention.
Reader: And are they related somehow or not?
Mystic-old-man: Here is the paradox, that it’s toward this... It’s toward this
that everything... There, you know, is some very specific such conditionality.
This is purely of a psychological order.
Reader: And is there some kind of related blood between them?
Mystic-old-man: Yes.
Reader: Do you want to know whom I imagined?
Mystic-old-man: Whom?
Reader: Do you know Alexandr Korol?
Mystic-old-man: Yes.
Reader: And the Romanov family?
Mystic-old-man: Well, you know in what... And why did this interest you
so much?
Reader: Well, it’s just interesting.
Mystic-old-man: And through whom is this? Through whom is it then...?
Reader: Through the grandmother.
Mystic-old-man: Through the grandmother? Possibly. Partially. It’s somehow
partially. Here it’s strange, but partially.
Reader: Uh-huh. Good. That is, are there interconnections as relatives?
Mystic-old-man: No, how it’s a psychological moment. Here he indeed...
And what is there, what is the trick in there? Interesting. The thing is that...