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[Alexandr Korol]

Big Alexander said that I am still being “polished,” that I am mutating.
He said that this is the reason why I fell ill and why I fell into the underworld
— it’s all part of this ongoing polishing and mutation. He mentioned
that something was triggered, starting from December 5th, and that this
“mutation” — this transformation of mutating — will continue all the way
until the middle or even the end of January. What else stands out from these
observations? Ah, well, I began to think about how I must accept both the light
and the dark — and that is exactly what is happening. I thought, “Wow, wow,
wow.” Because I immediately began to recall, besides the Sovereign’s Orb,
the staff of Hermes — the Caduceus. When you look at the staff itself,
entwined by two snakes — those are two spirits, two worlds: one under the
Sun, the other under the Moon. You become the central rod between them.
You cannot reject either side. If you are in the dark world — or let’s call it
the world under the Moon — it’s understandable that everything opposite
seems “bad” to you. If you are under the Sun, the opposite also seems bad.
The most important thing is this Golden Mean. When you reach this middle
ground, you acknowledge both the white T-shirts and the black T-shirts. It
doesn’t matter if a person is a hoodlum or not; you should have no grievances
against anyone, and you shouldn’t be swept into either extreme. I am
beginning to realize even more deeply that I already hinted at this to you, the
reader, in previous volumes of “Alternative History”. When I first discovered
the color red and began to learn the seven colors, and then the color white,
I immediately saw: “Oh, now everyone is going to be swept into the other
extreme.” In the fourth and fifth volumes, when I described the underworld
and the realm of the dead, the reader — being human — became immersed in it.
They found it interesting to put on a black T-shirt or a black hoodie and watch
action movies. But then, in the following volumes, when I began describing the
world under the Sun — Fortune, the world of the Sky — everyone immediately
swung to the other extreme. I assume all the readers following the path of my
novel began to avoid everything related to the world under the Moon. They
started throwing things away or hiding them, grabbing onto everything bright,
white, and red. That is a mistake. This is what happens when you are tossed
back and forth, and it is not good. You shouldn’t do that. Yesterday I wore
a white T-shirt, today a black one — but you need to free yourself from this