The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov

Author:Georgi Gospodinov
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Liveright
Published: 2024-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Farewell.

A new apartment.

New farewells.

The moves of my student years.

Moving out after divorce.

Moving to other countries.

Coming back.

A new apartment.

A whole life can be told as a catalogue of moves.

The Mother Capsule

After that exhibit, I go back home to my boxes and bags.

At every moment (including this one), somebody is burying a time capsule somewhere. The trend peaked in 1999. Then there was a certain drop in interest. The apocalypse of 2000 didn’t come about. People were disappointed, which is understandable after all that waiting. In the meantime, Facebook cropped up, a new time capsule. Now you’re a half-human/half-avatar, a strange sort of Minotaur, no a Min-avatar. I got distracted there, that’s what Facebook does, it distracts.

What I wanted to say was that of the tens of thousands of capsules being buried in the ground annually, over ninety percent will be lost forever. The people who have buried them forget, die, move. A mother-capsule needs to be created, which would contain the coordinates of all the capsules buried around the world. And so that its coordinates wouldn’t be forgotten, a special person needs to be hired whose only job is just that—to remember them.

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