If someone had, in any possible way, given me the slightest indication that would prompt me to share my first and new pen name with them earlier, and if I, a moomin, had faced the second-longest winter of my writing to date with open eyes and other responses rather than sleeping, I would have gladly announced that I just found my nom de plume. But now Time has yet once again succeeded in turning my short-lived confidence into oblivion, before giving its obligatory speech in the chamber of my head, where promises of a potentially better pseudonym echo, and where doubts that question the act of sanctifying the naming process and the name itself, rise. It is therefore decided that instead of an introductory chapter of a writer born with a brand-new name, an eulogy would first be written down into one single paragraph— to commemorate the passing of the writer named Robson, whose life span, under speculation— yes, I cannot even remember the exact number— is considered to last not longer than a flicker on the snow capped mountain of the northernmost Rockies, or no more than the double-speeded fame of the “fake Maria” in The Metropolis. It is with my deepest regret, but at the same time with great pleasure, to say that only three, but three, of his works remain in the world—Redmond and Otto, Bora and Shui, Only and Nothing, the characters of which derive from his own name, thus represent the author himself. No comments or reviews of his works will be given here, since the purpose of this post is to simply appreciate his presence in the course of life, and to acknowledge his contributions to the sea of knowledge. And it would be utterly pointless to showcase my incapability to evaluate what he has achieved, and the person whom I should’ve known the best. What should be remembered, however, is the brightness and the impression the writer left to this world of accelerated metabolism, giving hope to his countless successors, whose names are yet to know, and whose words are destined to form into water, and eventually an endless river.
River on Baltic Sea 
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