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[Alexandr Korol]

four triangles; in the world of the moon, two; and in the world of the sun, two — that is, eight. Again, eight. And eight triangles, considering that two fit into a cube — that is four cubes, that is, again everything is correct. Even if I want to take the model of the moon, the model of the sun, and the model of the star, and mix it all together — that’s the four cubes. One cube is the sun, the second cube is the moon, and another two cubes together are the star. And then you mix this star with the moon and the sun together, as separate worlds — and there end up being four cubes in total. And this is the three-dimensional eight-pointed star, in which there is the orb, and everything that I arrive at in the eighth volume of the novel “Alternative History.” And right now I am arriving at the same thing again — only, you see, by a different path.

In the eighth volume I was reasoning like this: in the world of the moon there are two cubes, and in the world of the sun there are two cubes, because in the world of the moon there should be four tetrahedra and in the world of the sun there should be four tetrahedra. You mix them, and there you have it — the star. And right now, in the eleventh volume of the novel “Alternative History,” I look at this differently: as if the sun is, for me, from one cube, where there are two tetrahedra, the moon is also from one cube, where there are two tetrahedra, and I still need to make two cubes for the star, in which there are four tetrahedra — and to mix all of this together as well. But all the same, the finale is one and the same. Correct.

Another curious thing. I remember where I stopped, and I didn’t even want to keep straining my head any further, and back then I was already told from above to stop and put this off until later. When I was working on the eighth volume — and the whole eighth volume, especially towards the end, was devoted to deciphering this matrix. And it’s wonderful and excellent that I arrived at the conclusion that there must be four cubes — that is, four of my matrices turned in different directions — and wow, how all this comes together. But besides the fact that there were now four cubes, that is, four matrices, it turned out that each of these four cubes has a whole bunch more cubes. Why? Because each of the four cubes has wheels, and these wheels, through their points, through their vertices, can form dodecahedra. A dodecahedron is like a football, made out of pentagons. And on every matrix there have to be two dodecahedra.