Life is short. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Life is brief compared to the endless, flat stretch of art or non-life, and the speaker realizes their presence is ending.
- In plain terms
- Life is short but art is long and flat, and I am standing here no longer.
- What can you take from it?
- Human life is finite against the backdrop of creation.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What lasts after we are gone?
- How does art compare to life?
Another view
It presents art as devoid of human connection.
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