"But I will say this: When the scientists from the future show up at my house with robot eyes and tell me to try them on, I will tell them to screw off because I do not want to see a world without him."
That was five years ago it hard to believe Augustus passed away so long ago. Hazel is still with me though. Luckily I now have a guide dog, so I don't have to rely on other people to guide me. Hazel never really fully recover from Gus's death. Then one day got a call from my doctor, "Isaac I have some fantastic news! Scientists from Better Vision want you to be the first to test the robot eyes in America" Before I could reply I had a flashback.
"Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any non-smoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should have gotten more." "Seventeen," Gus corrected. "I'm assuming you've got some time, you interrupting bastard. "I'm telling you," I continued, "Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interrupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: "\Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness. "But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him." Hazel was kind of crying by then. "And then, having made my rhetorical point, I will put my robot eyes on, because I mean, with robot eyes you can probably see through girls' shirts and stuff. Augustus, my friend, Godspeed."
"Isaac are you listening?" "Umm yeah I will think about it" I replied as I hung up. After that unexpected call I quickly harness Zeus (he's my guide dog) and then rang Hazel.
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