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The questions are asked in silence. And it is always about themselves that living ask, not about those who are to come.

You reach a moment in life when among the people you have known the dead outlive the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces. More expressions. On every new face you encounter it prints the old forms. For each one it finds the most suitable mask.

When you encounter only the dead, the dream frightens me. If Edalma is a real city inhabited by real people I need only continued looking at them and the resemblances will resolve. Alien faces will appear bearing anguish. In either case it is best for not to insist on staring at them.

The city is redundant. It repeats itself so that something will stick in a mind.