"... And not so long ago I saw Shestinsky again in Peredelkino. I gave him my story - the result of a two-month stay on the earth of the Lord God, in the state of Israel - “Look at your home, traveler.” Oleg read and was offended when he saw in the story, something that was not there. I decided that I was trying to hide Jesus Christ in his barefoot childhood spent in Nazareth, to take Jesus away from humanity, to leave him forever as a Jew. This, they say, is the pathos of the story. I thought that Oleg was joking. but, alas, he was serious to the point of despondency. And he said importantly: “I have been a believing Christian all my life!” (which surprised me - I didn’t notice him at the Gates of God on earth), but he immediately added weightily: “Mentally!” I spread my arms...”