" Hands full of sand, I say: take this, this is what I have saved; I earned this with my genius, and because I love you...
Take this, hurry. I am dropping everything and then I listened: I was not saying anything; out of all that had gone into the composition of the language and what I knew of it I had chiselled these words - take this, hurry- and you could not hear me. I had said nothing. And then I am leaving,
making ready to go to another street, when you, mingled between sleep and delirium, turned
and handed me an empty sack: Take this, my friend; I am not coming back. The ghost of a flower poised on your lip "