تلاتة ديسمبر 2019 - حلم الطابع الانجليزي

A man is hunched on a glass-surface desk in a modern executive office, inspecting a large stamp
with a magnifier. The stamp is rectangular, with a magenta background and what looks like an
orchid. The telephone rings, and the man picks up.
"Hello?"
"Hello X" says a woman standing in the dark entry of a distant cafe, inspecting her surroundings.
"All is well?"
"Yes, everything is as it should be."
They continue with small talk as the man picks up the stamp with a big tong and moves to a
large meeting table at the other corner of the room, also with a glass surface. As the man puts
the stamp down and picks a thick black marker, the woman says after a moment's silence:
"And X?"
"Yes?" Says the man while proceeding to put his big signature on the stamp.
"Do not sign the stamp."
The man stops midway for a second, realizing that she must have known everything, then
proceeds to sign the stamp with calm.
"OK."
They hang up, and the woman looks around the empty and dark cafe. A flashback sends her to
an old and tiny office years back, bright and bustling with action by a group of workers, she and
the man included, discussing themes to be depicted on stamps.
Then I wake up, desperately wanting to know how this all starts ..