"DIALOGUE BETWEEN A SALESMAN OF ALMANACS AND A PASSENGER" "Not expensive, and they make childrens happy!" "The best gifts for your children!" "Almanacs!" "New almanacs!" "Greetings cards of happy new year!" "Greetings cards of happy new year!" "The best gifts, ladies and gentlemen!" "Not expensive, and you will make your children happy !" "Does Mister want an almanac?" " The almanacs for the New Year?" " Yes, Mister!" "Do you think that this New Year will be good?" "Oh yes, of course!" " Like this year?" " Oh more, better!" " How about the next year?" " Oh, much more better!" "But you'd like which one?" "Wouldn't you think that this year resembles one of the last years?" "No..." "I wouldn't." "How many New Years passed since you've been selling almanacs?" "About twenty years." "And how many of these years you would think that they were alike?" "I could not say..." "You remember any year in particular who seemed happy to you?" "To tell the truth, no." "However the life is beautiful, isn't it?" "Obviously!" "Wouldn't you like to live those twenty years again and all of the years which had passed since your birth?" "Eh, dear Sir... for God's sake is that possible!" "If you must revive your life, neither more nor less, with all happinesses and misfortunes which you knew" "No." "I wouldn't like." "Which other life you would like to live again?" "Mine?" "That of a prince?" "Or which other one's?" "You do not believe, either yourself, or the prince, or whoever the other would answer exactly like you, and you are having to revive your own life, nobody would like to retrogress?" "I believe it." "You either would not retrogress like that if all were similar?" "Dear Sir, really, I would not do it." "Which life would you thus like then?" "I would like... a life like that, as God would give it to me, without condition." "A life randomly?" "And not knowing more?" "Same manner as I know nothing about the New Year?" "Exactly." "Me also I would like that if I had to live again." "The same applies to all of us." "But I want to say that the chance of this year we all have badly treated." "It is clear that each one thinks about occuring of bad things was major and weighed more than the good, because in the condition of reviving the life with the good and the evil which are clear for him," "no one wouldn't like to reappear." "This life which is a beautiful thing is not the only life that one knows but that of which one does not know." "The life passes but that a new one to come." "Eh yes!" "With the New Year's Day, the chances will start to treat us good, you, me and all others." "And a happy life will start." "Isn't it?" "Let's hope so!" "Then show me a beautiful almanac!" "Here, dear Sir!" "This is very beautiful!" " Take it!" " Thank you!" "Thank you, dear Sir!" "Goodbye!" "Almanacs!" "New almanacs!" "New calendars!" "FIN"