Manoylis (abbreviation Ma): The progress that appeared before I was born was all taken for granted, the progress that occurred after my birth would push the world toward a more perfect future, and the progress that appeared in my later years was all reactionary heresy.
Atosan (abbreviation A): That is true.
Ma: But, Atosan, we have lived until this time, but it seems we have never seen such heretics, have we?
A: Indeed.
Ma: Why is that?
A: Because the progress of civilization had already stagnated during our youth, a time when we were all very young. No one would have thought that it would be the last progress we'd ever make.
Ma: There is one more thing you haven't clarified.
A: Which is?
Ma: We have lived until now; I am already eight hundred seventy-three years old, and what about you, Atosan?
A: I have lived seven hundred seventy-seven years.
