Long ago I abandoned my masterpiece a roll of paper thirty yards long which I filled completely with minute handwriting in my dungeon years ago It vanished when the Bastille fell it vanished as everything written everything thought and planned will disappear
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker reflects on how their work vanished with the fall of an oppressive regime.
- In plain terms
- My writing disappeared when the prison fell.
- What can you take from it?
- History erases individual efforts.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Does art survive regimes?
- What remains after chaos?
Another view
It generalizes all planning as temporary.
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