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[Alexandr Korol]

Well, with this I can at least straightforwardly agree — it lines up exactly with how
I justified it all, knew it, saw it, sensed it, supposed and imagined it.

About the eleventh volume… He said that it’s the last volume of this path. And
the next book will be, as it were, about all of this, but from a different angle.
He called it somehow in his own way, with some word. I tell him:

— You mean that I’ll then be writing various conclusions there?
— Yes. Yes, it’ll be a full-fledged separate book after this whole novel. Well, it’ll
be a third or a quarter of your standard book.

That is, figuratively speaking, it won’t be 700 pages, but 200. Well, it’ll be a
full-fledged book where I’ll be writing something down. He said that it’s the
energies — that’s how it all happens with me, that something’s going on with
these energies of mine, that I switch on somewhere, switch off. Then he gave a
good example — I certainly won’t be able to repeat it well, word for word — about
monks who, when they read prayers, used to manage to read a certain number
of prayers in twenty-four hours, but now don’t manage it. As if now they manage
the volume that they used to manage in five hours — only, that’s five hours, and
the twenty-four hours are over. And what is that? I say:

— Oh, but that’s already similar to what I feel.
— Well, it’s something happening with the planets, it’s, in general, something
happening in the world.

Well, then he gave an example about adults and children, that children sense time
differently, in a different way than adults. For adults it goes slowly, for children
very fast. And so he said that there was some insanely great speed of time, of
this energy, when the guys and I talked for four days, when the guests were
there. “Here, here, this is what,” he says, “was happening.” But again I ask him,
what does it give, what doesn’t it give? He says:

— Nothing, it simply happens this way because of you.