#miniature sculpture

I think it would be fun if I were the saddest thing in the world.

I think people would band together to make me an award. At the ceremony it would be very touching. They would carry me and I would crowd-surf them even if I were something that doesn’t move like a shoe or an ant that died. Because I think the saddest thing in the world might be a dead ant. They work so hard and I think most of them die from exhaustion. They never sleep or eat or drink water. I told you one time that I wanted a tattoo on my arm of ants underwater and a squid. You said that ants underwater must be the saddest thing in the world. You ignored the squid, but I didn’t disagree about that other thing you said. It was on the internet where this happened and not in real life and I think I just stared at the screen and felt a little sad, but mostly just excited and happy.

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Mihi libeat si sim quam miserrimum.

Praemium omnes mihi dent, et in triumpho animis omnium permotis super corpora vehar, qui forsitan immotus sim vel calceus vel mortua formica, nam mortua, ut opinor, formica est miserrimum. Summa vi laboratae moriuntur, quae frustra defessae numquam quiescunt, edunt, aquam bibunt. Tibi quondam dicebam me compungi notis velle quae formicas in aquam mersas cum polypo significant, quo dixisti formicas in aquam esse tibi miserrimum. Polypo neglecto cum te tamen consensi. Cum Internet, non coram, haec sint dicta, litteris spectatis miserior paulum stupebam, sed tamen excitabar gaudebamque.

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It would please me if I were as sad a thing as possible.

Everyone would give me a prize, and with everyone’s spirits having been roused I would be carried in a triumph over their bodies, who am perhaps a motionless shoe or a dead ant, for a dead ant, I think, is the saddest thing. After working with all their strength, they die, who having been tired out in vain never rest, eat, or drink water. Once I was saying to you that I want to be marked with signs that show ants immersed in water with a polypus, to which you said that ants in water are the saddest thing to you. Although you forgot the polypus, I still agree with you. Since these things were said on the Internet, not in person, after I saw the letters I was stunned being a little sadder, but nevertheless I was excited and rejoiced.