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“Night, street, lantern, pharmacy,

Meaningless and dim light.

Live another quarter of a century —

It will be like this. There is no exit.

Would you die, you'll start all over again

And everything will repeat as aforetime:

Night, icy ripples of the canal,

Pharmacy, street, lantern”.

– an excerpt from the poetry cycle “Dances of Death”

(Alexander Blok, 1915)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT77q3_Wrp4

On December 4, 2023, at 4:30 pm, I got the idea that a plot for a new book was emerging. On December 16, 2023, at 3:58 pm, I got an idea for a title for the book.

1st stage of writing: December 16, 2023 5:04 pm – March 12, 2024 10:30 pm, 185,744 characters.

As a preparation for the 2nd stage, in May – July 2024, the book grew by 40%, as of July 9, 2024 it was 248,853 characters long. My previous books were 355,820 and 344,955 characters long.

2nd stage of writing: February – May 2025 – 397,501 characters.

Finished editing on September 2, 2025 at 2:08 pm, electronic publication on Litres – 412,829 characters in the book.

When published by Ridero, after correction, October 8, 2025 – the book contains 400,160 characters, 70,203 words. Also on this day, the book (with corrections) was re-published on Litres. The number of characters is pointed as shown by the MS Word program.

The time specified in the text of the book is Moscow time, UTC+3.

Important! If you haven't read my first two books, 19+ and especially The Last Da Vinci, then you can hardly enjoy reading this one. The book is very specifically written, it is far from the classical understanding of a literary work.

In the course of the book, there will be references to works of fiction by other authors, which you should read if it is a book, or watch if it is a movie. But this is easier, because it will be beautiful works of the best representatives of humanity, which cannot be said about me and this boring and uninteresting book.

The book contains a large number of quotations; they are the basis of the book. Of course, all quotes are enclosed in quotation marks. If the quote follows immediately after the link to it, then it goes in the usual font. If the citation is not preceded by a reference to the source, then it is indicated in italics.

I write this work mainly for myself, because it is my personal diary and workbook, and some episodes of my biography are described – for a period of 3 years, starting from the fall of 2022, when my second book The Last Da Vinci ended – and until the end of summer 2025.

The publication (in Russian) is planned in electronic form in the fall of 2025 on the Litres platform, in paper form (4 copies) in the Ridero; then, in December 2025, it is planned to publish an English translation.

The idea to publish the book not in the fall of 2026, but in September 2025 (i.e. a year earlier) came to me on May 19, 2025 at 10:34 pm.

“Omen (latin. ōmen, also called portent) – among the  ancient Romans, a favorable or unfavorable sign, especially a word accidentally heard, since the person who heard it referred to himself and considered it as a sign for the future.” – Wiki.

“A good Technician was rarely wrong. A top Technician was never wrong. Harlan was never wrong.

‘Now the M.N.C. recommended,’ said Harlan (he spoke coolly, evenly, pronouncing the Standard Intertemporal Language in precise syllables), ‘by your Section involves induction of an accident in space and the immediate death by fairly horrible means of a dozen or more men.’

‘Unavoidable,’ said Voy, shrugging.

‘On the other hand,’ said Harlan, ‘I suggest that the M.N.C. can be reduced to the mere displacement of a container from one shelf to another. Here!’ His long finger pointed. His white, well-cared-for index nail made the faintest mark along one set of perforations.

Voy considered matters with a painful but silent intensity.

Harlan said, ‘Doesn't that alter the situation with regard to your unconsidered fork? Doesn't it take advantage of the fork of lesser probability, changing it to near-certainty, and does that not then lead to—‘

‘-to virtually the M.D.R.’ whispered Voy.

‘To exactly the Maximum Desired Response,’ said Harlan.”

– The End of Eternity (Isaac Asimov, 1955)