Summary

Even though Sergey had once believed the essence of a person could be found on social media, he thought maybe he was mistaken once he began reading and studying posts and pictures shared by his friends. He began to think the process was insincere but perhaps a person’s essence was hidden in what he chose not to post. Although the app, for which he had even gone so far as to create a prototype, could copy the voice a person used on social media it still could not get at that person’s true voice.

The final words of Hamlet “he has my dying voice” and “the rest is silence” (183) excited Sergey. Vadik had suggested that book after Sergey told him about the letter from his father and what it had meant to him. Sergey wondered if Vadik had...