-- . . . Yes, I would think so.

-- you think?

-- Things do not stop existing once they are out of your sight, ██████.

-- can you prove that?

-- . . .

-- Do you see that glass?

-- sure.

-- Turn away.

-- . . .

-- Alright.

-- Although you cannot see it, the glass is still here. You could tap on it, make a noise with it, if you so chose.

-- Then, that is my proof.

-- In the same way you cannot see the atoms in the air, or the germs on your skin; they nonetheless exist alongside everything else-

-- the world is not a microcosm. You are not sole benefactor.

-- . . . and so, my answer?

-- They exist. Even after the car has passed- they are as real as you are. Perhaps even more so.

-- Humans aren't born for the sake of simply existing. There isn't . . . a higher reason, but there's little to be called any sort of lower reason, either.

-- Your lack of object permeance doesn't mean they vanish.

-- . . .

-- you don't quite get it, do you, ███?

-- How do you figure?

-- what i asked- the people, their lives- that was only an analogy, remember?

-- what did i ask of you?

-- If they were real.

-- . . . i'm sorry, you still don't understand.

-- what's real and what's not,

-- they're both only two sides of the same coin, tandem with one another.

-- and that coin still has the space between two faces, doesn't it? the part of the coin we're able to touch, preform tactile verification of it's existence with. we can twist it and turn it, and look at both faces, but never at the same time.

-- the image of that house, with the window-

-- let's say that's your eye.

-- Alright.

-- when you look through the window, you're waiting for the coin to flip: heads or tails, existence or non-existence.

-- eventually, the coin has to fall. but for the brief second it hasn't, you can almost see a blur of both;

-- while the coin is still spinning in the air, its both heads and tails.

-- both existing, and not existing.

-- do you understand?

-- . . .

-- don't give me that look.

-- i know you know.

-- after all, that's why you're here.