A Letter to Bung Hatta

Bung Hatta, you are not in one hundred years of solitude. The conversation between us, a dialogue with the past, is an endless conversation. An elephant dies leaving its ivory. But it doesn't choose how that ivory will be fashioned. Generations come and go, shaping it, carving it, evaluating it. Discarding it perhaps. A prominent person takes on meaning because thousands of unknown people come before, together, and after him.

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