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of people, I could still, since it hadn’t been forgotten yet, recall something from that world from memory like this, and immediately become like that. And so I remember the moment when I met up with a girl — we were standing on the balcony, it seems — and she says:
— What is this? How are you doing this?
— In what sense?
— This is hypnosis!
— What? I don’t know what hypnosis is, I don’t believe in it.
— No — I had already noticed this the last time — it was the same way then.
— What?
— Well — I am communicating with you right now, and I am starting to get lost in time, in space — I don’t understand anything at all, all the thoughts are getting erased. What are you doing?
— I’m not doing anything.
And she — with such a fright, and with such a grievance against me… Well — you people are, of course, great — you always eternally have fear, anger, you are, of course, such beauties. Well — alright. And so she is at me with a grievance, attacking me. I don’t understand what happened, I wasn’t doing anything. And then I’m only then starting to understand this. Before, I simply hadn’t noticed these things. Well — I have mentioned them in the books a thousand times, even now. It turns out that when I meet up with a person, let’s say — but this was a long time ago — that if I had met up with a person at a café, no matter where, and if I was talking with him about his earthly topics, primitive ones, then I would hear the café, the stench of people, the slamming of the doors, the temperature of the air, the smells, the noise, the smacking of lips. Because you, people, live in this, and see this, and feel this — and I myself end up in this same thing, and everything starts to irritate me. And if this person — everything that he has — I would start to feel it, but this is because of the fact that I had started listening to his story, and had ended up, as if through his story, in his world. But if I had met up with a person at a restaurant and started talking with him about “Alternative History,” that is, about something otherworldly — would tell him about how I had been at the hospital and had felt the woman, and that this is empathy —
— What is this? How are you doing this?
— In what sense?
— This is hypnosis!
— What? I don’t know what hypnosis is, I don’t believe in it.
— No — I had already noticed this the last time — it was the same way then.
— What?
— Well — I am communicating with you right now, and I am starting to get lost in time, in space — I don’t understand anything at all, all the thoughts are getting erased. What are you doing?
— I’m not doing anything.
And she — with such a fright, and with such a grievance against me… Well — you people are, of course, great — you always eternally have fear, anger, you are, of course, such beauties. Well — alright. And so she is at me with a grievance, attacking me. I don’t understand what happened, I wasn’t doing anything. And then I’m only then starting to understand this. Before, I simply hadn’t noticed these things. Well — I have mentioned them in the books a thousand times, even now. It turns out that when I meet up with a person, let’s say — but this was a long time ago — that if I had met up with a person at a café, no matter where, and if I was talking with him about his earthly topics, primitive ones, then I would hear the café, the stench of people, the slamming of the doors, the temperature of the air, the smells, the noise, the smacking of lips. Because you, people, live in this, and see this, and feel this — and I myself end up in this same thing, and everything starts to irritate me. And if this person — everything that he has — I would start to feel it, but this is because of the fact that I had started listening to his story, and had ended up, as if through his story, in his world. But if I had met up with a person at a restaurant and started talking with him about “Alternative History,” that is, about something otherworldly — would tell him about how I had been at the hospital and had felt the woman, and that this is empathy —