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[J.E_Magog]

-We can't decipher the past,
how can we know the future?

No one ever knows what'll happen to them?

-Except me, now. I know.

Are you scared?

-Sure am. I don't want to
stop living. I loved life so much.

What was it you loved?

-Everything.
Wine, books, music, women,
above all women.
Their smell, their mouths,
the feel of their skin.

Were there many of them?

-Yes.

Don't they begin to seem the same?

-A bit, yes.
But I never get tired of them.

Still the great seducer?

-No, not anymore.
With age, it's not the same thing.

Do you still enjoy wine?

-Unfortunately not.
Not with my liver.

The trips you dreamed of,
did you make them?

-Nowadays there are tourists everywhere.

It's not the present you cling on,
It's your past life.
That life is already dead.

-Perhaps.

Les Invasions barbares(The barbarian Invasions)