In search of lost time

The day the sculptor Salvini died, he was given, as all mortals are, the time to review every place and moment of his life. The sculptor refused. “My life has been a series of extraordinary adventures. To revisit them would only make me sadder. I’d rather use my remaining time to review my last work, "Divine Nemesis" otherwise known as the triumph of death.

So it was.

Soon after, the angel of death returned, to announce the end of his time of grace. “What a paradox” he exclaimed “you gave me enough time to revisit my entire life which lasted 63 years. The same length of time was too short to review an object I made in 3 months”.

“In this work is all your life and the life of all men” the angel replied “to review it would take an eternity”

Marcel Proust  "In search of lost time"