_Nostalgia


Soon the ships will set out to explore the new spice routes.
New disciplines will arise:  the archaeology, the physics of nostalgia.

When was the first loss, the first going away?
What is the origin of nostalgia?
At what age—in an individual life, in the story of humankind—does it evolve?

Has nostalgia grown more potent at the end of the twentieth century?
Do more people feel nostalgia, and more often, than ever before?

Nostalgia for what?
A place where one was happy.
As if in the present that were not possible.

Was not the past a simpler time?
Will we become nostalgic for the future?

A voice, simply a voice that we recognize
that accompanied us along the way
that we do not really expect will return