The Nine-Edged Mirror, Part VIII: The Event Horizon

The Molecule of Eternity: A Living Adaptation

A serialised philosophical narrative.

Selected parts of the novel, made available ahead of the full English edition in the form of essays.

Each piece is an encounter. Each encounter—a ripple of memory, character, or myth.

Translated directly from the author’s desk. This is a living text—sincere and still evolving.

The Nine-Edged Mirror, Part VIII: The Event Horizon

In this eighth part of The Nine-Edged Mirror, the narrative plunges into the shadowed annals of a 1963 Soviet geological expedition to the anomalous marshes of Karelia, where a seasoned team of scientists encounters inexplicable pheno-mena, blurring the boundaries between earthly ore and cosmic intrusion.

Interwoven with this archival chronicle is Margarita Smolina’s contemporary odyssey through a feverish Orensgrad beset by magnetic anomalies—the eerie beginning with a spectral encounter at a tram stop, evoking the forgotten histories, unheeded prophecies, and mythic parables of swallowed suns and golden ages; the vanishing of the river of time coinciding with citywide maladies mimicking radiation sickness, hormonal upheavals, and atopic epidemics afflicting nearly everyone—and culminating in Smolina’s groundbreaking treatise on the Fundamental Information Node, a hyperdimensional quantum particle of flawless spherical symmetry, exhibiting extreme density, bio-quantum coherence, non-local entanglements, and the dynamic informational stasis that challenged prevailing paradigms of consciousness, genetic encoding, ontological isolation, and the interplay between the Universe and the Expelled.

The maddening blend of archival realism with speculative quantum metaphysics, and gothic folklore—from Karelian bugbears to Slavic fairytales of unclean forces, and, further, to surreal tableaux of cosmic reckoning—the essay probes the event horizon where empirical inquiry meets mythic revelation, advancing The Molecule of Eternity towards a precipice of irreversible transformation, where the past’s buried secrets foreshadow a hypercosmic reckoning for its isolated protagonists amid an encroaching cascade of universal glitches.