Description:
interior, scarred wood floor, part of a door at upper left, flower wallpaper, twin bed with dark headboard, clothes draped on headboard finials, young dark haired male reclining on bed covered in sheet, head back toward proper right shoulder, proper right arm hanging toward floor and proper left arm lying on covers by his side, nightstand at back right with book and bowl holding a plant
Label Text:
The text of this image is: He lay there in a pose reminiscent of Marat. When they first saw him, they thought that he was asleep. But when they touched his forehead, they realized that he had died. How wretched, how selfish of death! It knew that on the very next day, he was to have met her. Now she will never know the sound of her name on his lips or his touch or that he ever existed. She will pass the shop where they were to have met and never guess her loss. One of the consolations of old age is that it is too late to die young
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