Chapter 5 (Cont.)
When Chauvin woke up it was not just the colour and material of the floor that changed. Mwammy would not spend vast amounts of her times encouraging Chauvin to walk. Mrs. Krallice Gotard had already reached peak geriatric period. No not even that. What's a happy last life like, even spiritually? The contentment from having experienced many things and having seen the changes of age and now having to time, in retirement, to recollect up it all to heart's content. Mrs. Krallice Gotard, my mother, was 40 year old the time the bombs fell but spiritually she was moribund. Shortly after our refuge in Tatterstown, mother had fallen into a state of perpetual speechlessness. What about my father? Mr. Benzo Gotard wa..., as I was 2 at the time of the apocalypse and 7 at the time of his ultimate insanity, what would I know of him? When I was 2 I couldn't have known any major details at the time of my infancy, children interpret people in terms of aura. No one can possibly claim to remember ever about their memory of such tender an age. I imagine he used to be a great father. My elder sister, Mary, told me that he was the best dad she could possibly imagine. I trust her. I don't remember what kind of aura, me as baby Chauvin, had interpreted from my father, but as a young boy, I remember for certain that he was frightening me all the time. No. Mr. Gotard was never physically hostile towards any one he interacted with: family members, servants, visitors. Written record says he was always reasonable, warm personality and persuasive personality. Full of activity and vigour and patriotism. He was a distinguished politician in the Eastern American state of Massachusetts. We don't talk about his actual designation in the then-ruling Niqqson regime, no not saying that in a broader sense. It's just our familial culture. The new world has gone on to follow entirety new mentality following the apocalypse, it's a total rebirth after all. But the history of the Niqqson regime is taught in national curriculum throughout the NWF. Not reverently, but as concrete history. Even though the new world has enforced a modified version on the vast majority of continuous human knowledge as studied in academic contexts, some few have remained more or less unaltered. The entire history of the events leading up to the third great war is preserved in great detail and taught/academically held in a matter-of-fact way. Perhaps it is to ensure that the new generation of the new world learns from the mistakes and horrors of the old world? The skeptic in me says that the motive to let people know about how bad things could be and how grateful the citizens should be knowing how they were chosen to be saved from the fate of the grand majority of humanity? Why skeptic? Is it not factual? A hidden secret? I used to a corporate agent. I held the centrally-assessed model citizen status. I was a shining beacon of productivity and growth at Datamangle. Maybe that is why my mind is framing the actual state as skepticism, regarding Tatterstown, because I was a part of the machine that simulated this illusion of utopia?
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In memoriam Mark Rothko IX / Byzantine, Navy Blue, Burned Saffron, Antique White, Black