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From On Souvenirs From An Old Cabinet, or Soul Diving by Poli Gomes
I wanted to keep some strawberries, chocolate chip cookies, an old copy of Lolita and some water in my inner drawer. Because without water you cannot live, right? But imagine if this water spills all over these things stored inside a closed drawer! The strawberries will be filled with fungi, the cookies will dissolve and the words of the book will break apart like a hieroglyph that is erased by a torrential rain. If that happened, I would have to return to primitiveness, without even knowing my future-present. Oh, how sad that would be…