What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.
Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.
As humans with egos and feelings, none of us wants to be pilloried. But as thinkers and writers, it's our job to express opinions forthrightly and without qualifying them out of existence.
Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.
Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
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