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“Has he matured? Has he moved on from his youthful restlessness? After all he thought the world was going to end. Haha, what a test, what a burden. How should we grade him on that score?
“Well, both he and the world are still around but they have both grown crazier through the years.”
“And yet, the idea doesn’t floor him like it used to. He can actually walk through crowds of people while imagining the vast destruction, the end, and get to his destination with a smile.”
“But it doesn’t mean he wants it to happen.”
“Oh god no. And now that he’s through with this odd anger toward the human species he is ready for compassion, don’t you think? After all, the anger permitted him to move forward without stopping for any sentimental reason.”
“He’s certainly matured then. He’s certainly ready to be efflorescent.”
“I doubt if he’ll be entertaining but he will be more conscious of a few things he despised as a young man.”
“It is young men turning into old men that is fascinating. After all, a young man by himself is predictable in a crazy way and an old man by himself is bitter in a predictable way but a young man on his way to becoming an old man, there is the tale to be told.”
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