As a child I loved this image for the length of eternity in the fairy tale The Shepherd Boy by the brothers Grimm:

[...] The King said, "The third question is, how many seconds of time are there in eternity." Then said the shepherd boy, "In Lower Pomerania is the Diamond Mountain, which is two miles and a half high, two miles and a half wide, and ( Read more... )

Have a closer look at Brueghel's The Triumph of Death...in the right corner you can see the knight, who's stunned, unable to unsheathe his sword, paralyzed by the Reaper's work.


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My world has changed since we broke up. It's limited again.

Andrew Wyeth's Christina lived in a small circle. Just the house, the barn, the horizon. She was lamed, so her world was limited.


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