"Likewise, I cannot imagine being alive for so many years. Does the world remain endlessly fascinating? OR do you get bored, after a while?" History does repeat itself, or at least rhyme well enough. Maybe after a while it got tedious and that was why the tall man was so melancholic.

"I suppose if someone would put my private things on display while I were alive, it would feel awkward, but after death, in the passage of time, would it really matter that I had a crush on one of my tutors? Or that I like or dislike certain foods? I'd like to think that it would make me, well, more alive in someone's mind. When we die, it is the best immortality we can hope for, I think." Since we are not Egyptians, with their reed boats and afterlife.