Mr. Fun was also a worrier,

but if there was nothing to worry about,

he let himself be swept up in flights of fancy.

Once he wondered what it would be like to go backward.

He caught the idea from television:

Mrs. Fun staying up to watch Brad Pitt

in the old days of America.

In the movie, the voice of Brad Pitt got younger and younger

until he could only cry, and not say to those around him,

“I was born an old man who played cards, smoking.”

When the house was quiet, Mr. Fun imagined living every day

of his own life again in reverse.