"Na praça há o paredão dos velhos que vêem passar a juventude; ele está sentado em fila com eles. Os desejos são já recordações."
Italo Calvino, "As Cidades Invisíveis"
This is prophylaxis, a practiced absence, a safer distance. He is a fine clinician to diagnose this, a sound decision. This is a family practice, it's anesthetic, it's nonreactive. This is a termination, a fine resemblance, but no relation.