The most philosophical of all signs at kiosks, shops or drug stores is We will be back in 15 minutes.
It has the taste of eternity. No date, no time, no people. This sign is the witness and the proof of the reality. It survives any nuclear blast to be optimistic about not less than life on the planet. It’s spontaneous and reliable, objective and absolute, promising and promiscuous, laconic and expressive. It’s Buddha, Nietzsche and Shakespeare.
We will. We will be… Will we be back?
#1 by Adam on May 14, 2009 - 4:44 pm
Thinking of that wonderful British writer who, alas, passed away last month – J.G.Ballard – I can imagine such a sign in one of his novels.
Imagine a city post-nuclear holocaust; buildings incinerated, an eerie peopleless silence, dust sweeping across the land.
But, what is that? A door bizarrely standing upright in the middle of this armageddon – no building around it – and a sign on the door that says:
“We will be back in 15 minutes.”
#2 by Maryna Rakhlei on May 14, 2009 - 5:10 pm