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“I'm afraid of leaving this world as if I never came, of being forgotten, of never existing. What is remembered lives on. “I want to leave a mark and be remembered.”
“There are photographs, aren't they enough to be remembered?”
“Photos are kept for a maximum of three generations. Then they become garbage and go away. I don't have children, who will take care of them? Besides, we are now in the digital age. I don't even think he'll stay that long. Maybe I'll write. "I'll name it those who can't hold on."
He looks at my face, as if testing whether I understand or not.
“It was written a long time ago but... I haven't read it but I know it. "It's a famous book." I say.
"I read. Is there only one story of those who couldn't hold on well? "And I'll write mine." says.
“They won't read it then,” I say.
He shrugs.
“They shouldn't read it.”
He stays silent for a while, drinks his tea and cigarettes;
“Don't they really read? Then I really die. Then, can I write 'Those Who Cannot Be Sheltered'? Since I don't want to bother him, I give him the answer he wants. However, I know that it will not be read, that it will not be found creative and that it will be considered shallow.
“Of course, why not? "Once a person does it, everything happens."