Original artwork, not a still
It is a sobering thought, for instance, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The comparison begins like an anxious measure of achievement against a famous life, then turns abruptly toward mortality. Being older than the age Mozart reached makes the usual competitive calculation absurd. The joke finds a dark way to unsettle the habit of judging a life by someone else’s timetable.
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