Where have you been, Photographer?
#330
Economist: Your back, Photographer!
Photographer: I’m back.
E: Where have you been?
P: Traveling.
E: Taciturn as ever. Why did you stay away so long?
P: There was no need to come back.
E: Oh.
P: You wrote daily letters to me. Have you already forgotten?
E: I haven't.
P: Enough contact for me.
E: Why did you come back then?
P: Democracy needs more real encounters.
E: Aha. You missed me, admit it.
P: ...
E: I missed you, too, Photographer. Will you stay for a while?
P: I will.
E: So we can now go for daily walks together again. Can switch back from monologue to dialogue.
P: We can. Provided you let me have my say.
E: Provided you say something.
...
P: Economist?
E: What?
P: Thank you for all these letters. They helped me from time to time.
E: You are welcome. To be honest, I also wrote them for myself. They helped me as well. You know, you see things more clearly when you write them down.
P: I don't. Maybe words are to you what photography is to me. Sometimes, when I study these frozen moments, I have flashes of enlightenment. Then, I see things clearly.
E: Two ways of understanding the world.
P: Seems so. See you tomorrow, Economist.
E: See you tomorrow, Photographer.