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This is a story um
about my father because my father
is a very philosophical man
and he always has an idea
going round and round and round in his mind
and each idea that he has
its orbit takes several years to go
around and when he's really gone all the way through
then he has a new idea and
these days he has a new idea and his idea
is that when we are conceived we appear
in our mother's womb like a
little tiny light
suspended in immense
space and no sound
it's completely dark and time
doesn't seem to exist it's like an
ocean of darkness and
then we're growing and we keep growing and growing
and as we grow slowly
we begin to feel things touch things and
touch the walls of our world that
we're in and then we begin to hear sounds
and feel shocks that come to us from
the outside and as we get bigger and bigger
the distance between ourselves and that
other outside world becomes smaller and smaller
and this world that
we're inside which seems so huge in the beginning
and so infinitely welcoming has become very uncomfortable
and we are
obliged to be born and my father says that
birth is so chaotic and violent
that he's sure that at the moment of birth
we're all thinking this is it
this is death this
is the end of my life and then we're born
and it's a surprise cuz it's just the beginning and
in the beginning we're very small and the world
seems infinitely big and time
seems infinitely long but then
we keep on growing and we learn how to use our senses
and we learn how to touch one more time
the contours of the world that we're in
and sometimes mixed in
with the sounds and sensations
of this world we hear sounds
and feel shocks that come from yet
another world and that other world
just follows us our whole lives long as if
something is happening just on the other side
of a very very thin wall but we can forget about it for a long time and then all of a
sudden it comes again and then at the end of our lives
we're obliged to die
and at that point
my father says that then
we think we're really smart and we think this time
we know for sure that this is death
and that this is the end because everybody knows that
but my father thinks that
that's not the end either it's just
the beginning of something else...