"Staying put" is the unfolding of a loss that gradually leads the protagonist into a stuporous state. The flow of the text, which for long stretches adopts a dialogic form between the living and the dead, gradually erases the world of the narrator. The narrator, obsessed with the possibility of ending, not only recalls the death of the other but also his own, in a driving movement from the future and the past towards the present. In a world of constant distraction, "staying put" ultimately appears as the only possible alternative to forgetting. Stefan Schweiger's prose is a laconic-monumental memento mori, directed at a society that prioritizes functioning over thinking. With astonishing conciseness and subtle humor, the author conjugates the speech patterns of today's aimless hyperactivity.