He believed he understood for the first time why people say life is a dream if you live long enough the events of a lifetime like the events of a dream cannot be communicated simply because they are of no interest to anyone.Human beings themselves after death become figures in a dream to the survivors they fade away and are forgotten like dreams that were once convincing but which no one cares to hear about. There are parents who find in their children a receptive audience with the result that in the childs credulous imagination they find a last semblance of life which quickly dims out as if they had never existed. ...