At the end I finished blurting "I am too old for that kind of young idealisms, I've already been through all these things! - Must I put up with all this again?"
"But it's authentic, it's the truth!" Simon screams "the world is an infinity enchanted place! It gives everyone love and they will give it back! I have seen it!"
"I know it that it's true but I have enough!"
"But you cannot be tired, if you have enough we have enough, if everybody has enough and is tired, everybody is surrending, and then the world falls in to pieces and dies!"
"And it's so like this that it would have to be!"
"No! There should be the life!"
"It doesn't make difference!"
"Ah my Jacky don't come to say these things to me, life is life and blood and strain and tickles" (and he starts to make me tickles on the ribs in order to demonstrate it to me) "Do you see? You jump, you feel you tickle, you life, you have a vital beauty in the brain and a vital joy in the heart and a vital orgasm in the body, all you have to do is live, Live! Everybody loves to take themselves arm in arm along the walk" from that I understand that he has spoken with Irwin.
"Alas miserable, I am so tired" I am forced to admit.
"No way! Waked up! Be happy! Where do we go now?"

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