Original artwork, not a still
The Common Reader · 1925
We may enjoy our room in the tower, with the painted walls and the commodious bookcases, but down in the garden there is a man digging who buried his father this morning, and it is he and his like who live the real life and speak the real language.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker admits we may enjoy a pleasant, book-filled room in a tower, then contrasts it with a man digging in the garden who buried his father that morning. In this view, he and people like him live the real life and speak the real language.
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