A folded white cloth on a tiny step beside a worn patterned cloth lying before a small door.

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Mark Twain

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

What one age treats as sacred, the next may walk on. It's a wry point about how reverence fades: objects and customs once held in awe become ordinary, even trampled, as time moves on and values shift.

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