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| The world has ended silently. The problem of sharply lowering birth rate was found out in the first years of the 2020s. The brightest minds of humanity immediately took on the pursuit of correcting this phenomena, but every effort was in vain. | The world has ended silently. The problem of sharply lowering birth rate was found out in the first years of the 2020s. The brightest minds of humanity immediately took on the pursuit of correcting this phenomena, but every effort was in vain. | ||
| - | First decades brought turmoil and even warfare. The diminishing population could not support the rising mass of the elderly causing collapse of social structures. Cynicism and meaninglessness were rampant, and brought with them violence and decadence. | + | First decades brought turmoil and even warfare. The diminishing population could not support the rising mass of the elderly causing collapse of social structures. Cynicism and meaninglessness were rampant, and brought with them violence and decadence. |
| And then, silence. | And then, silence. | ||
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| He was always a reclusive man, failing more or less in matters of both love and friendship, always drawn towards his lonely contemplations. So it was that he made a grave decision, in midst of the most heated turmoil of the world he turned his back on it and headed north into the woods. | He was always a reclusive man, failing more or less in matters of both love and friendship, always drawn towards his lonely contemplations. So it was that he made a grave decision, in midst of the most heated turmoil of the world he turned his back on it and headed north into the woods. | ||
| - | Necessity was a great teacher. Hunger taught him fishing, need showed how to make traps for the animals of the forest. In the shelter of a lonely cabin next to a small lake he lived out his life. At first he sometimes got visitors from strangers and refugees but when he grew older they ceased and he was all alone with the nature. | + | Necessity was a great teacher. Hunger taught him fishing, need showed |
| A lifetime of loneliness has drawn him into peculiar behaviors: he talks to himself, he envisions situations of the old, civilized world in the yard of his tilted cabin. And most of all the survival of his mind in those inhospitable circumstances were granted by his dry and humorous wit that always danced and figured out new puzzles and ponderings for his own amusement. | A lifetime of loneliness has drawn him into peculiar behaviors: he talks to himself, he envisions situations of the old, civilized world in the yard of his tilted cabin. And most of all the survival of his mind in those inhospitable circumstances were granted by his dry and humorous wit that always danced and figured out new puzzles and ponderings for his own amusement. | ||
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