Original artwork, not a still
Sweet Thursday · 1954
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker asks where restlessness begins and answers with contradictions: being warm yet shivering, fed yet hungry, loved yet yearning elsewhere. Discontent seems to arise without any real lack, and time, called the Bastard, is blamed for prodding these feelings along.
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